Thank you Mr. Adamowski . Pasting image from Flowers of India for reference please .
Horned Balsam [image: Foto info] [image: Horned Balsam] <http://www.flowersofindia.net/Scripts/rec_form.php> [image: P] [image: N]ative [image: Herb] [image: elliptic] *Photo:* Subhasis Roy*Common name:* Horned Balsam • Nepali: राजा बाबु Raja bubu *Botanical name:* Impatiens bicornuta *Family:* Balsaminaceae (Balsam family) *Synonyms:* Impatiens pradhanii H.Hara ------------------------------ Horned Balsam is a perennial herb with a very thick rootstock, similar in general appearance to *Impatiens bicornuta*. Stem is robust, fleshy, hairless, branched. Leaves alternate, crowded at upper part; leaf-stalk 2-7 cm; leaf blade elliptic or elliptic-lanceshaped, 7-15 x 4-6.5 cm, membranous, both surfaces hairless or sparsely pilose, bristly at base, lateral veins 10-12 pairs, base wedge-shaped, margin coarsely rounded toothed, tip tapering, falling off. Flowers are crowded in leaf axils, in many flowered racemes. Inflorescence are rather stouter. Flower-cluster-stalk 3-8-10-5 cm long (up to 28 cm long including the axis), hairless. Flower-stalks are 12-19 mm long. Flowers are yellow flushed and veined with brownish-violet or purplish-brown, generally unspotted. Lower sepal is sac-like, 11-13 mm long, 16-19 mm deep, with a slender pointed tip 1-5-2 mm long, strongly incurved into a straight or incurved spur 3-4 mm long. Lateral united petals 28-32 mm long. Capsule is cylindrical, seeds 8 or 9, almost cylindric, shiny. Horned Balsam is found in the Himalayas, in Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Nepal, at altitudes of 2400-2800 m. Thank you. Saroj Kasaju On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 5:47 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Wojciech ji. > > On 31-Jul-2017 6:31 PM, "Wojciech Adamowski" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I suppose this is Impatiens bicornuta, as it has rather long S-shaped >> spur. >> Other species of this group grow in other parts of western and central >> Himalaya. >> Compare >> Grey-Wilson C. 1989. Impatiens bicornuta and its allies. Studies in >> Balsaminaceae: 7. Kew Bull. 44,1: 61-66. >> Best regards Wojciech >> >> >> 16:40 wtorek, 2017-7-25, Saroj Kasaju <[email protected]> napisał(a): >> >> >> Dear Members, >> >> Location: Shivapuri National Park, Nepal >> Altitude: 7500 ft. >> Date: 22 July 2017 >> >> Thank you. >> >> Saroj Kasaju >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
