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ImPATIENS VIRIDIFLORA. (Wight.) Parasitic on trees, glabrous, stems very thick (often 1 inch in diameter) 
fleshy erect, leaves rather succulent alternate and crowded towards the apex of the branches lanceolate to ovate or obovate acute at the 
apex and always more or less attenuated at the base, crenate with the crenatures furnished with incurved weak bristles, 2-J-34 inches 
lon o> by broad, petioles inch long, peduncle axillary 2 (rarely only 1) flowered, inch long, bracteoled at its apex, 
pedicels elongate 1-1J inches long, fluwers green, upper sepals (vexillum) vaulted and crowned with a very large erect foliaceous 
crest, lateral sepals subulate reflexed, 2 combined lateral petals (aloe) thick fleshy the upper smaller and quite hid under the vexillum, 
spur (labellum) large with a revolute point, capsule glabrous. Wight in Mad. Journ. of Lit. v. p. 9. 
I have only found this curious parasitic species on trees at the top of the Sivagherry ghat (5,000 feet) where it is abundant , 
it is now in cultivation in gardens and grows well in lumps of brick and charcoal ; it is more curious than beautiful. It is nearly allied to 
Imp. parasitica, but the aloe are differently shaped and scarcely at all hid in the labellum, whereas in parasitica the lower lobe is quite 
hid in it; the flowers of this are perfectly green. 
PLATE No. CXLI. 
IMPATIENS PARVIFOLIA. (Bedd.) Herbaceous sub-erect, branched, glabrous, leaves alternate or subopposite minute 
ovate deeply serrated, furnished with a few hairs or glabrous 3-7 lines long by 11-3 lines broad, peduncles axillary solitary 5-6 times 
longer than the leaves, umbellately or subracemosely flowered towards the apex, vexillum small and slightly vaulted over the 
staminal crown, lateral sepals small and pointed upwards, aloe with the upper lobe small, the lower one large and spreading pale pink 
with a bright crimson blotch on the upper lobe and a similar mark on the vexillum which is also pinkish, labellum greenish, boat¬ 
shaped with a small obtuse spur, seeds several hairy, flowers 5-6 lines long. 
Anamallays, covering rocks during the monsoon on the summit of the Akka mountain, 8000-8600 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CXLII. 
IMPATIENS TRAVANCORICA. (Bedd.) Herbaceous 6-8 inches in height not branched, stems glabrous, leaves 
crowded towards the apex, ovate or sometimes obovate, bristly crenate, the margin at the base of the leaf being furnished with 1-2 
very long weak setae, similar hairs or setae being sparingly scattered over the upper surface of the lamina, 1-1^ inches long by 7-10 lines 
broad ; petioles 1J-1J inches long, peduncles axillary, about the apex of the branches about as long or a little longer than the 
petioles umbellately flowered at the apex, flowers white 6-8 lines long very delicate in texture, vexillum vaulted, lateral sepals rather 
large obliquely ovate 3 nerved, aloe with the upper lobe small, the lower large and spreading, labellum boat-shaped with a short 
(sometimes obsolete) conical blunt spur. 
Travancore hills, Myhendra and Aghasteer at 4-5000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CXLI 11. 
IMPATIENS SCABRIUSCULA. (Heyne.) Erect, branched, tomentose, leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate acute at the 
apex and much attenuated at the base cuspidate-serrated, upper side slightly, under side rather densely pubescent with weak pellucid, 
jointed hairs, 2-3 inches long by 4-6 lines broad, petioles 2-6 lines long, peduncles aggregated or rarely solitary in the axils much 
shorter than the leaves, pubescent, vexillum pubescent with a crest, lateral sepals very small, lower lobe of the aloe large and spreading, 
labellum boat-shaped pubescent spurless or produced into a long filiform spur. Heyne, in Roxh. FI. lnd. (ed Wall.) 2. p. 464, 
Vary- a■ spurless. 
Vary- (5, labellum produced into a long spur. 
Vary- a is very common in Wynad and is the plant figured. Vary- (3 I have only found in Coorg; it differs in no way except 
in the labellum being prolonged into a long filiform spur. 
PLATE CXLIV. 
IMPATIENS ELEGANS. (Bedd.) Herbaceous, erect often throwing out roots from the joints, somewhat branched, 
leaves alternate ovate acuminate, crenate with incurved bristles, above with a few hairs on the veins, ’beneath pale glabrous, 3-4 
inches long by about 1 \ broad, petioles 1J-2 inches long, peduncles axillary solitary from shorter to a little longer than the petioles, 3-5 
flowered towards the apex (umbellately or sub-racemosely), and there furnished with ovato-lanceolate acuminate bracteoles, vexillum broad 
ovate flat with a green ridge at its back, lateral sepals small ovate with a green ridge ending in a point, upper lobe of the aloe very 
small rather square and inflexed over the staminal crown, lower lobe large and spreading, labellum small boafc-shapen without a spur, 
flowers pale rosy white with a purple eye, capsule glabrous, seeds hairy. 
Common on the Anamallays from 2,500 to 4,500 feet elevation ; the flowers are very much larger at the higher elevations. 
Except in the absence of a spur it is much like Imp. cordata, Wight, but is a more delicate plant. Dr. Hooker unites cordata of Wight- 
with viscida, but they are quite distinct. 
PLATE CXLV, 
