Attention Dinesh.
Jyosna Dessai, who works on Balsams, claims that
Many people including botanists identify the long leaved species of Balsam as Impatiens lawii but this is not true. Infact this species is small in size with small ovate leaves that are crowded at the apex.

I first checked out the picture of the specimen which we have used



On zoom into the flower, I could a see a small incurved spur. However in I. lawii, the spur is supposed to be absent.

Jyosna suggests that the species which we have (mis)identified as I. lawii, could be either I. tomentosa or I. rupicola.
I could find the following identification keys for the two.
I. tomentosa: anterior sepal hooded, with a short spur inflated at the point
I. rupicola: Spur short; incurved; flowers small, rose or rose - purple

As I could not see any inflation in the spur, I would think our species could be I. rupicola.

Real Impatiens lawii

Jyosna says that our unidentified flower pka06 is the real I. lawii. Here is the picture for comparison:


My reference Handbook of the Indian
Flora, by Heber Drury, describes the leaves of I.lawii as
shortly oblong, obtuse at the base, sessile, the upper ones smaller, cordate, stem-clasping, remotely serrated, roughish above.
Indeed the upper leaves are short and heart-shaped. If this descrïption is correct, then Ingalhalikar's descrïption, although not incorrect, leaves room for confusion.

Comments solicited.

I am very glad that there has been a review ... very fortunate to get misidentified species set straight.

Many thanks to Jyosna.

Thanks to you too, Tabish :-)