Erodium.] xxxn. geraniace^ (oliver). 293 



decumbent or nseending branches more or less softly pubescent or pubescent- 

 tomentose. Radical leaves ovate-cordate, obscurely or distinctly 3-5-lobed, 

 unequally crenate, on rather long petioles ; cauline ovate-oblong, lobed or 

 subpinnatifid. Beak slender, \\-2\ in. long. 



Nile Land. Nubia (Schweinf. el Asch. Enum.). 



4. PELARGONIUM, L'Hcr. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 273. 



Flowers irregular. Sepals 5, the posterior sepal with a spur adnate to the 

 pedicel. Petals 5 or fewer, the two upper dissimilar. Stamens 10, connate 

 at the base, 7 or fewer antheriferous. Ovary and fruit as in Geranium. — 

 Herbs or undershrubs, glandular, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves opposite 

 or alternate, stipulate. Flowers umbellate, on leaf-opposed axillary or ra- 

 dical peduncles. 



A large and characteristic Cape genus with but few outliers in tropical Africa, Western 

 Asia, and Australasia. I have not satisfactorily identified any of the following with Cape 

 species, excepting P. flabellifolium. 



1-2 ft., erect or ascending. Leaves 5-fid, remotely toothed. Pe- 

 tals 5. Pedicels 1^-2 in., glabrous or thinly pubescent . . LP. midtibractealum. 

 Subcaespitose with a short erect stem. Leaves 5-partite with 



deeply 3-fid or subentire segments. Petals 5, entire. Pedicels 



strigillose, f-1 in 2. P. quinquelobatum. 



Mem short, fleshy, rough with persistent bases of stipules. 



Leaves incise -lobate, toothed. Petals emarginate 3. P. cortusafolium. 



Acaulescent or nearly so. Leaves flabelliform, palmatifid or pal- 



matipartite. Segments entire or pinnatifid. Petals 5, entire . 4. P. flabellifolium. 

 i rostrate. Leaves rotundate-reniform, obscurely lobed, creuate. 



Petals 4 5. P. glechomoides. 



1- P. multibracteatum, llochst. in Rich. Fl. Alryss. i. 119. Stem 

 somewhat shrubby below, attaining 1-2 ft. or more, thinly pilose or strigil- 

 lose above, at length glabrous and shining, the older portions irregularly 

 Knotty. Leaves membranous, palmatifid or sub-7-fid with broadly oblong 

 or ovate, obtuse or scarcely acute, remotely serrate or crenate-serrate segments, 

 more or less appressed-pilose or hispid-pilose especially beneath, or subseri- 

 ceous, 2-5 in. diam. ; petioles various up to 6 in. Stipules ovate or ovate- 

 elliptical, acute or acuminate, about \ in. long. Peduncles elongate, 6 in. 

 *° * ft- 5 umbels 6-1 0-flowered ; bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate. Pedicels 

 \5~H in. Calyx-spur adnate nearly to the base of the pedicel. Petals 5, 

 obovate-spathulaie, entire, twice as long as the linear- or oblong-lanceolate 

 apiculate sepals.— P. abyssinicmn, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 65. 



Wile Land. Abyssinia, thickets in rocky mountainous situations, Salt ! Schimper ! 

 "oth! and others. 

 Apparently allied to P. alchemitloides, Willd. 



2 - P. quinquelobatum, Hochst. in Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 118. Stems 

 y ery short or attaining several inches from a subcaespitose rootstock, more or 

 less clothed with a deflexed pubescence intermixed with long patent hairs, 

 leaves 5-partite ; segments with one or two deep lateral rather obtuse lobes 

 "ear the middle, lobate-dentate or subentire and oblong or linear, obtuse or 



