Dicotyledons with Polypetalous Flowers — Balsaminece . 
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Distribution. —Another small Natural Order allied to the two preceding, and scarcely ordinally 
distinct. But one species is European, two are American, and the rest are restricted to Tropical and 
Southern Africa and Asia, being most numerous in India. 
One British Genus ; Species, 1 (and one or two introduced and naturalized). 
Sepals 3 or 5, the posterior sepal spurred or saccate. 
PETALS 5, the lateral and posterior usually united, and thus apparently only 3. 
STAMENS with the anthers connivent or connate around the stigma. 
Fruit dehiscing by 5 elastic valves, separating from below upwards. 
USES, &c.—Without economic importance. One Indian species, the Garden Balsam (Impatiens Balsccmina) r 
is a favourite tender annual, of which an infinite number of double variously-coloured varieties have originated under 
cultivation. The only species indigenous in Europe, the Touch-me-Not (Impatiens Noli-me-tangere), takes its name 
from the irritability of the ripe fruit, which bursts with the slightest stimulus. 
Natural Order 
RUTACEiE. Tab. 19. 
Diagnosis. — Herbs shrubs or trees, with alternate or opposite trans- 
lucently-dotted leaves. Flowers regular. Sepals and petals 4-5. Stamens 
hypogynous ; as many, or twice as many as petals. Pistil syncarpous, with 
axile placentation. 
Distribution. —A large exotic Natural Order, chiefly confined to the warmer regions of the 
Globe. One tribe (Diosmece) is confined to the Cape of Good Hope, another (Boronecz) to Australia, 
and a third (A^lrantiece) to Tropical and Eastern Asia, the remainder being generally dispersed 
throughout the Tropics and warmer countries of the Temperate zones. 
