I M P 
I M P 
Incapable of fufferiitg; exempt from the agency of exter¬ 
nal caules ; exempt from pain.—If the upper foul check 
what is confented to by the will, in compliance with the 
flefii, and can then hope that, after a few years of feniu- 
ality, that rebellious fervant fhall be eternally call: off, 
drop into a perpetual impajjibh nothing, take a long pro- 
grefs into a land where all things are forgotten, this would 
be fome colour. Hammond. 
Secure of death, I fhould contemn thy dart. 
Though naked, and impajfble depart. Dryden. 
IMPAS'SIBLENESS, f. Tmpaffibility; exemption from 
pain.—How lhamelefs a partiality is it, thus to referve all 
the fenfualities of this world, and yet cry out for the /;«« 
pajfiblmefs of the next ? Decay of Piety. 
IMPAS'SIONED, adj. Difordered by paffion: 
So, Handing, moving, or to height upgrown, 
The tempter, all impaf ion d, thus began. Milton. 
IMPAS'SIVE, adj. Exempt from the agency of exter¬ 
nal caufes: 
She told him what thofe empty phantoms were. 
Forms without bodies, and impajjive air. Dryden. 
IMPASTA'TION, /. In mafonry, the formation of 
any thing from a kind of pafte or mortar ; that which is 
formed from a kind of palte or mortar. 
IMPASTED, adj. Concreted as into pafte. This word 
is not in ufe : 
Horribly trickt 
With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, fons, 
Bak'd and impajled with the parching fires. Shakefpeare. 
IMPATIENCE, /. [ impatience , Fr. impatientia, Lat.] 
Inability to fuffer pain ; rage under fuffering.—All the 
power of his wits has given way to his impatience. Shakef- 
feare. —Vehemence of temper ; heat of paffion.—Fie ! how 
impatience lowreth in your face ! Shakefpeare. —Inability to 
fuffer delay; eagernefs: 
No further with your din 
Exprefs impatience. Shakefpeare. 
IMPATIENS, f. [impatient of the touch ; fo named 
from the elafticity of the fruit.] Balsam ; in botany, a 
genus of the clal's fyngenefia, order monogamia, natural 
order of corydales, (gerania, Jujf.) The generic charac¬ 
ters are—Calyx : perianthium two-leaved, very fmall ; 
leaflets roundilh-acuminate, equal, placed towards the fides 
of the flower, coloured, deciduous. Corolla: five-petal- 
led, ringent; petals unequal ; of which the fuperior is 
roundilh, flat, upright, flightly trifid ; conftituting the 
upper lip. Lower pair reflex, very large, outwardly larger, 
obtufe, irregular, conftituting the lower lip. Intermedi¬ 
ate pair oppofite, rifing from the bale of the upper petal. 
Neftary one-leafed, receiving in the manner of a hood the 
bafe of the flower, oblique at the mouth, rifing outwardly, 
ending in a horn at the bale. Stamina : filaments five, very 
fliort, narrower towards the bafe, incurved ; anthers as 
many, connate, divided at the bafe. Piftillum : germ fu¬ 
perior, ovate-acuminate; ftyle none. Stigma Ample, Ihor- 
ter than the qptliers. Pericarpium : capfule one-celled, 
five-valved, fpringing open elaftically, the valves rolling 
fpirally. Seeds : feveral, roundilh, fixed to a columnar 
receptacle.— EJJential Charatfer. Calyx two-leaved ; co¬ 
rolla five-petalled, irregular, with a cowled neftnry ; cap- 
fules fuperior, five-valved. 
Species. I. With one-flowered peduncles, i. Impatiens 
Chinenfis, or Chinefe ballam : peduncles pne-flowered, 
lolitarv, leaves oppofite, ovate, neftaries bow r ed. This is 
an annual plant, one foot high, upright, round, alter¬ 
nately branched, red. Native of China. 
2. Impatiens latifolia, or broad-leaved ballam : pedun¬ 
cles one-flowered, folitary, leaves ovate, ferratures, lance¬ 
olate, neftaries longer than the flower. This alio is an 
annual plant. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
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3. Impatiens rofmarinifolia, or rofemary-leaved balfam: 
peduncles one-flowered, folitary; leaves oppofite, linear- 
Koenig fent it from Ceylon. 
4. Impatiens Capenlis, or Cape balfam: peduncles one- 
flowered, folitary; leaves ovate, notches piliferous. 5. 
Impatiens bifida, or bifid balfam ; peduncles one-flowered, 
folitary ; leaves oblong, ferrate ; nectaries very long, bifid. 
Natives of the Gape of Good Hope. 
6 . Impatiens oppofitifolia, or oppofite-leaved balfam : 
peduncles One-flowered, aggregate ; leaves oppofite, linear. 
This is an upright plant, with a lucculent jointed Item. 
Flowers fmall, with a nefitary much Ihorter than the pe¬ 
tals. Native of the iiland of Ceylon. Annual. 
7. Impatiens cornuta, or horned balfam : paduncles one- 
flowered, aggregate; leaves lanceolate, nectaries longer 
than the flower. This is alfo an annual plant. Stem a 
foot high, roundilh. In its leafing this refembles the next 
fpecies, but the flowers are much fnialler, with lpurs five 
times longer, and on very long peduncles. In Burman’s 
figure, the peduncles are fome folitary, others two, and 
others three, together: the engraver, by miftake, has placed 
fome of them below the leaf. The Ceylonefe call it ku- 
daelu kola, from kiulaelu , a fwallow, and kola, a leaf. Na¬ 
tive not only of Ceylon, but of Cochin-china, where the 
inhabitants ufe a decoition of the leaves as a wall), to 
their head and hair, to which this plant, which is a com¬ 
mon weed in their gardens, gives a very fweet odour. 
8. Impatiens ballamina, garden ballam, or balfamine : 
peduncles one-flowered, aggregate-; leaves lanceolate, the 
upper ones alternate; nectaries Ihorter than the flower. 
An annual plant, rifing a foot and half high, and dividing 
into many lucculent branches. Leaves long, ferrate. The 
flowers come out from the.joints of the Item, upon fen¬ 
der peduncles about an inch long, each fuftaining a An¬ 
gle flower ; but there are two, three, or four, of thefe pe¬ 
duncles arifing from the fame joint. In its wild Itate, it 
is about two feet high, with an upright, round, hifpid, 
juicy, white Item, and afeending branches. Flowers red 
or white. Capfule ovate-oblong lanuginous, as ffiown on 
the Botany Plate VIII. fig. 45. vol. iii. p. 250. Native 
of the Ealt Indies, China, Cochin-china, and Japan; the 
Japanefe ufe the juice prepared with alum, for dying their 
nails red. It was cultivated by Gerarde in 1596. 
By culture, fays Mr. Martyn, this plant is very much 
enlarged, and becomes very branching. I have leen the 
Item ieven inches in circuit, and all the parts large in 
proportion, branched from top to bottom, loaded with its 
party-coloured flowers, and thus forming a molt beauti¬ 
ful bulh. The varieties which cultivation has produced 
in this elegant flower are numerous. White, purple, red, 
ftriped and variegated of thefe different colours, Angle 
and double of each. Mr. Miller fpeaks particularly of two 
varieties, which perhaps may belong to fome of the. other 
fpecies. Firft, the immortal eagle, a moft beautiful plant 
from the Eaft Indies. The flowers double, much larger 
than thofe of the common fort, fcarlet and white, or pur¬ 
ple and white; and, there being many of thefe, the plant 
is very valuable. Secondly, the coc/fpur, from the Welt 
Indies; which has Angle flowers, as large as the other, 
but ne'ver more than half double, and only with red and 
white ftripes. This is apt to grow to a very large fize 
before it flowers, which is very late in autumn, lo that 
in bad feal'ons there will be fcarcely any flowers, and the 
feeds feldom ripen. 
9. Impatiens mutilia, or mutilated balfam : peduncles 
one-flowered ; leaves lanceolate, ferrate, oppofite, necta¬ 
ries mutilated. Stem annual, a foot and half high, up¬ 
right, round, with alcending branches. Flowers fcarlet. 
Cultivated in Cochin-china, probably from China. 
10. Impatiens cochleata, or fpiral balfam: peduncles 
one-flowered ; leaves oblong, fubferrate ; oppofite, nefita- 
ries fpiral, root creeping. Stem annual, a foot high, up¬ 
right, jointed, red, almoft without branches. Flowers 
fcarlet, very handfiome, but not- fweet. Cultivated in 
Chiaa. 
10 K II. With 
