ImPATIENS WlGHTIANA. (Bedd.) Suffrnticose erect branched, leaves alternate glabrous, lineolate, narrow-lanceolate 
acuminate, incurved-briatly-serrate, a few hairs on the nerves above, glabrous below 5-6 inches long by l|-lf broad, petioles 1£-2| 
inches long furnished with numerous pedicelled glands towards the apex, peduncles axillary solitary a little longer than the petioles, 
racemed nearly their whole length, flowers 12-14 lines long white with vexillnm and alee mottled with pink, vexillum with a 
green ridge at its back, lateral sepals small, labellum ventrioose with a short incurved spur, aloe with the upper lobe very small, lower 
lobe much elongated and narrow, bracteoles small ovate, pedicels in fruit horizontal, fruit with about 5 seeds, seeds hairy. 
Anamallays, moist forests 3000-4500 feet elevation. 
PLATE CXLVT. 
IMPATIENS TaNGACHEE. (Bedd.) Herbaceous sub-procumbent, glabrous, leaves alternate subverticelled acuminate 
bristly-serrate 2£-4 inches long, by $-£ inch broad, petioles scarcely any beyond the dilated base of the leaf, peduncles axillary much 
longer than the leaves 4-8 flowered towards the apex, braetes large boat-shaped persistent, pedicels erect in flower, slightly reflexed in 
fruit, flowers 12-14 lines in length, bright rose, vexillum large vaulted, ovate, lateral sepals ovate pointed, labellum with a long 
tapering recurved spur, aloe large and spreading, the upper lobe about \ the size of the lower, capsule glabrous gibbous, seeds numerous 
Anamallays, 4000 feet and upwards, most abundant on the higher ranges in beds of r 
PLATE CXLVII. 
IMPATIENS PBCENICEA. (Bedd.) Suffruticose erect glabrc 
; a very beautiful species. 
- > Ieavea deep green and shining, lanceolate attenuated 
at both ends, incurved bnstly-serrate, 3-4 inches long by 1-1* broad, petioles 4-8 lines long, peduncles axillary as long or longer than 
the leaves, racemose or occasionally dichotomously branched towards the apex and furnished with cordate boat-sbaped permanent braetes 
at the base of the pedicels, flowers brilliant scarlet with a little yellow in the centre about 1 inch long, 4-14 to each peduncle pedi¬ 
cels slender £ inch long, vexillum vaulted winged at its back, alee spreading, the lower lobe about twice as large as the upper lateral 
sepals small, labellum gradually attenuated into a long recurved spur which is swollen and gland like at its point * 
Piilney Hills, sholas on the higher ranges, 6-7000 feet, (abundant in the Kodinkarnal Shola). This very beautiful species is 
very similar to the Imp. Walker® of Ceylon j it is only found on the Pulneys; it is easy of cultivation from cuttings, and well worth 
a place in gardens. 
PLATE CXLVni. 
IMPATIENS LIGULATA. (Bedd.) Herbaceous, much branched, glabrous, leaves opposite linear-lanceolate macro- 
note at the ap«. seaaUe, more or less cordate and etem-clasping at the base, remotely bristle-toothed, above furnished with verv 
minute harsh pubescence below glabrous and glaucous, 3-4 inches long by 6-8 lines broad, petioles none or 1 line lone nednnolee 1-3 
axillary 1 flowered about J the length of the leaves minutely pubescent, flowers about 1 inch long pink or' rerely white, 
lateral sepsis small linear lanceolate acute, vexillum email vaulted slightly pubescent along the 
a long Aliform inner lobe which is completely hid in the spur, lower lobe large and spreading, labellnm 
spur, capsule swollen in the centre glabrous with about 12 black shining seeds. 
PLATE CXLIX. 
;re of the back, alee with 
a lougish recurved gibbous 
IMPATIENS AnaMALLAYENSIS. (Bedd.) Herbaceous, erect, often with small branches from the axil, of the lower 
broue'X^ 
r:;t; 
PLATE CL. 
than the leaves, ecap« twice to four time. a. long M the fl™. ‘ ° nm “ ^ » “«• **•» 
long, pedicels 13-16 linea long furniehed with a email ovate braot^le at their b«e lZTl£2an! T' ^ ‘ 
broadly ovate vaulted, aloe with a dense tuft of netaloid W, U 8ma11 ovate « ▼exiilum rather large 
rivalis), upper lobe furnished with a long filiform appendage which is lately hid Jthe JhYTltiT* aT* ^ de6pIy bifid ^ “ 
recurved spur, capsule glabrous, seeds very small numerous. y Wh ° 9 engtil of tbe 8 P ur » labellum with a loDg 
