A NEW INDIAN IMPATIENS 
BY 
L. J. SEDGWICK, i.c.s. 
Impatiens Kleiniformis L. J. Sedgwick, Sp. nova. 
Herba erecta, ramosa, flaecida, ad $5 cm. alta, habitu I. Kleinii assi- 
milis. Folia opposita, in medii caulis regione maxima, ad 9 cm. longa 
et ad 2*5 cm. lata, elliptica vel oblonga, ad apicem sensim attenuuta, 
crenata et in crenaturis subulata, in caulis surama regione sessilia et 
basi cordafca, in caulis ima regione basi in petiolos ad 1 cm. long os 
attenuata, glabra vel subtus in costa et nervis sparse et inconspicue 
hirsuta, semper eglandulosa et exstipulata. Peduneuli axillares, solitnrii 
vel 2-3-fasciculati, per anthesin erecti, pdstea deflexi, pergraciles, ad 
2 cm, longi, duobus oppositis hirtiouloniim lineis induti. Flores ad 
6 mm. lati, rosei, sed apud ntriusque alie interius latus longiludinali 
purpurea linea insignati. Pelalum dorsale paulisper hirsuto-earinatum 
et basi gibbosum. Ala unguibus loqgifc, integra et sine auriculis. 
Calcar ad 9 mm. longum, filiforme, subarcuatum. Capsiila (nondum 
maturata) ad 1*5 cm. longa, fusiformis. Semina nigra glabra, polita. 
Very close to I. Kleinii Wt. & Arn , but distinguished by the lines of pubescence 
on the pelicels, the sessile upper leaves with cordate ba^e, and tie ab.-eace of glands. 
It is a slightly larger plant observed in the field and the flowers were smaller for 
the size of the plant, paler pink than those of I. Kleinii, but with two darker lines 
on the wings. In connexion with the glands at the base of the leaves of I. Kleinii 
it has been asmmed that those glands are metamorphosed sdpules; but they are 
marginal on the leaf base, and often more than one on each side of the leaf. They 
peem more properly to represent a glandular development of the basal and supra-basul 
serratures of the leaf-margin. 
At Castle Rook, North Kanara District, Western Ghats, at about 1,600 feet elevation, 
rainfall about 250" , in ditches by the railway line and wet places near by, August 
1917.* 
Balsams being often endemic in small areas it is possible that this species is not 
widely distributed. But on the ether hand since Hooker (followed by other botanists) 
says that the glands at the base of the leaves of I. Kleinii are often absent it is 
possible that the two species are mixed up in herbaria. 
* See the note entitled “Herbaceous monsoon flora at Castle Rock and a new 
species of Balsam” L. J. Sedgwick, Journal Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xxv, 3, 
p. 482, 15th January 1918. 
