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428 XXXII, GERANiACE^. (Edgeworth & Hook. f.) [Monsonia. 



A diffuse anniwl herb or undershrub ; branches pubescent and glandular. ^ Leaves 

 1-1 4 in., long-petioled, obtuse or mucronate, re pand- toothed, glabrate above, pilose and 

 pubescent beneath ; stipules subulate. Peduncles long, sharply deflexed at the brac- 

 teoles. Sepals obovate, awned, densely pubescent with long hairs. Petals violet or 

 pink, 3-veined, crumpled, scarcely exceeding the sepals. Filaments ciliate. Carj^els^ 

 acute, stipitate, obliquely truncate with 2-3 wrinkles at the top, roughly hairy; 

 beak 3 in, 



2. M. heliotropioides, Cav. ; Boiss. FL Orient. I 897 ; annual or 

 perennial, leaves petioled ovate ovate-cordate or rhomboid minutely tootnea, 

 sometimes obscurely lobed hoary above villous beneath, petiole and scape 

 clothed with very long wliite deciduous hairs, sepals silky or hoary 

 mucronate. M. mallica, Edgw. in Jour. Linn. Soc. vL 200. 



Panjab; Mou\ta.nj Edgeworth; beyond the Indus in Waziristan, /S^ewar^/ Sindh, in 

 the Hill range, Vicary. — Djstrib. Westwards to Egypt. j 



A small white annual herb, or with a well-developed woody rootstock. _^^^^^ 

 J-1 in. long, chiefly radical, very variable in shape, coriaceous, densely silky an 

 villous beneath ; petiole longer than the blade. Scapes 2-8 in , erect s'^^yv* 

 Flowers ^-i in. diam., umbelled. Sejyals oblong, at length obovate and enlarged m 

 fruit. Petals obovate-spathulate, not exceeding the sepals. Stamens 15, ^^^S^J^;^ 

 5-adeIphous at the base.' Fruit 3 in. ; carpels naiTow, stipitate, hairy, keeled, with i^ 

 transverse wrinkles at the top.— The Indian specimens are usually but not ^''^^^ - 

 annual, and never so large as the Persian and Arabian specimens. The structure 

 the fruit is ideutical with that of Erodium stipaceum, but the stamens are very 



different. 



GEaANZVM 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, stipulate. Pedicncks 

 :illary, bracteate. l-S-flowered. or nArlin^ls nmbelled. Flowers re^mar. 



Sepals 5, imbricj 

 lands. Stamens 



segments obtuse deeply lobea ana ""."t^^^^eciei 



filaments nearly glabrous. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; Tnnfn 

 Stems 2^ feet, erect. 



petals 



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-lower netioles long; stipules J in., broadly oblong, ovate or obtuse. -^*^Y nous g'*" 

 Ixacied pedicels long, clothed with spreading hairs. Sepals i in., luemUrany * » 



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10, usuaUy aU anther-bearing, rarely 5 without ai"'^^'!' 

 free or shortly monodelphous. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled, beaked ; f^^^ J 

 stigmatose longitudinally, ovules superposed. Capsule 5-lobed, ^-ceue , 

 cells 1-seeded, carpels usually dehiscent ventrally, often separating ?ep ^ 

 fragally from the axis, their beaks elastically coiling upwards "o^. ; 

 base to the apex of the axis. Seeds with scanty albumen or ; ^P^ J 

 with the cotyledons induplicate or convolute incumbent.— DisTKlB-bpeu 

 about 100, natives chielly of cold temperate regions in the ^onu 

 Hemisphere ; they are very diflScult of discrimination. 



Sect, l —Peduncles axillary and terminal, solitary, 2-flowered. /^^^J"; 

 buds oblong or ovoid, not pyramidal. Sepals not dilated or subcomd . 

 the base. Carjyds, with their beaks separating elastically from tiie ^ 

 not wrinkled.— Kootstock stout, perennial. 



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* Flowers large, an inch or upwards in diameter. 



t Petals rejlexed. 



1. O. refractum, Edgew. & Hoohf,; tall, stout, branched, { 



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