292 xxxii. gerantacEjE (olivek). [Geranium. 



deeply somewhat pinnatifidly incised, usually with linear-oblong, toothed or 

 entire, rather acute lobes, glabrescent ; petioles of the stem -leaves pubescent 

 or patent-pilose, usually exceeding the lamina. Peduncles from the lower 

 axils very short or obsolete, upper 1-2 in., 2-flowered. Pedicels from 2 or 3 

 lines in the lower flowers to |-1 in. Sepals glandular-pilose. Petals ex- 

 ceeding or even about half as long again as the sepals, entire, claw scarcely 

 ciliate. Carpels deeply pitted in transverse lines with irregular intervening 

 tubercles, glabrous, separating with or without a tail. Seeds minutely 

 punctate. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper I Dillon and Petit ! Plowden ! (a form with nar- 

 row leaf-segments.) 



Var. sublavis. Fruit-carpels with faint transverse lines from the dorsal suture, punctate- 

 scabrid. 



Upper Guinea. Camaroous mountain, 7000 ft., Mann 1 



3. ERODIUM, L'Her.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 272. 



Same as Geranium, excepting that the antherifei*ous stamens are reduced 

 to 5, alternating with as many staminodia, and the leaves (in two of the 

 following species) pinnate. The petals are sometimes slightly unequal. 



A widely spread genus, including a few common weeds of cultivation and waste ground. 

 Of the latter are two of the following, which occur in Abyssinia. 

 Leaves pinnate. 



Leaflets pinnately toothed or serrate, ascending to 2-3 ft 1. E. moschatum. 



Leaflets prhuatipartite or sub-2-pinnatifid, with acute segments. 



Smaller throughout than E. moschatum 2. E. cicutarium. 



Leaves (radical) ovate-cordate, crcnate, obscurely or distinctly 3-5-lobcd. 



Low pubescent herb " 3. E. malapoides. 



1. E. moschatum, Willd. ; DC. Prod. i. 647. Branches laxly papil- 

 lose-pilose, ascending, reaching 2-3 ft. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 9-13, 

 ovate to ovate-oblong, serrate or pinnately toothed or acutely incised. " Fig- 

 ments glabrous with a tooth on each side of the dilated base." Fruit and 

 beak 1^—2 in. long. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia (Schweinf. et Asch. Enum.). 



Europe, North Africa, and elsewhere ; introduced into tropical countries and at the Cape. 

 Often faintly musk-scented. 



2 E. cicutarium, Filer. ; DC. Prod. i. 646. Stemless or usually 

 with decumbent or ascending weak branches, considerably smaller in all its 

 parts than E. moschatum ; laxly, often glandular, pilose. Leaves pinnate; 

 leaflets pinnatipartite or sub-2-pinnatifid with linear or oblong acute seg- 

 ments. " Fdaments glabrous, not toothed." Fruit and beak \-\\ in. long- 

 Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Europe, North Africa, Asia, etc. E. allotrichum, Steud. (in Schimp PI. Abyss.), ap- 

 pears intermediate between the two above species, the differences between which it is difficult 

 to define. 



3. E. malapoides, Willd. ; PC. Prod. i. 648. Stemless or with weak 



