Impatiens jaeschkei Hook. f. in Hooker's Icon. PI. sere 4.10: t. 2902.1913.

Herbs, tall, glabrous. Leaves alternate, oblong, acuminate at apex, 10 - 20 cm long, crenate along margins, lateral nerves 6 - 12; petioles 2 - 5 cm long. Flowers in 3 - 5-flowered racemes, ca 2.5 cm across, pinkish; peduncles slender, 5 - 10 cm long; pedicels filiform, 1 - 2 cm long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 4 - 6 mm long. Lateral sepals 2, ovate-rounded, falcate, long-acuminate, 6 - 7 mm long, membranous. Lip shorter than wings, bucciniform, beaked; spur short, incurved. Standard orbicular, emarginate at apex, 1.8 - 2 cm across. Wings sessile, bilobed, 2.5 - 3 cm long; basal lobes more or less ovate, cuneate at base; distal lobes more or less oblong with rounded apex. Capsules erect.

Fl. & Fr. Unknown.

Distrib. India: W. Himalayas, ca 2700 - 3100 m. Uttar Pradesh (Kumaon).

Endemic.