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IMPATIENS

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 340 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
IMPATIENS , in botany, a genus of annual or biennial herbs, sometimes becoming shrubby, chiefly natives of the mountains of tropical
Asia
  and Africa, but also found widely distributed in the north temperate zone and in
South
  Africa. The
flowers
 , which are purple, yellow,
pink
  or white and often showy, are spurred and irregular in form and borne in the
leaf
 -axils. The name is derived from the fact that the seed-pod when ripe discharges the seeds by the elastic separation and coiling of the valves. Impatiens Noli-me-tangere, touc e-not, an annual succulent herb with yellow
flowers
 , is prdl!ll6ly wild in moist mountainous districts in north Wales, Lancashire and Westmorland. I. Roylei, a tall
hardy
  succulent annual with rose-purple flowers, a Himalayan species, is common in England as a self-sown
garden
  plant or
garden
  escape. I. Balsamina, the common balsam of gardens, a well-known annual, is a native of India; it is one of the showiest of summer and autumn flowers and of comparatively easy cultivation. I. Sultani, a handsome plant, with scarlet flowers, a native of
Zanzibar
 , is easily grown in a greenhouse throughout the summer, but requires warmth in winter.


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