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Geranium.] xxxii. geraniace^. (Edg'ewortli & Hook, f.) 429 



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dttlar-hairy, marejins broad, awn stout. Petals twice as long as the sepals, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, white, 5-nerved, villous on each side at the base. Filaments gradually 

 narrowed upwards. Ovar^/ tomentose. Fruit not seen. — A very curious species, allied 

 to the N. American O. Eichardsonu 



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% G. pratense, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 641 ; stout, erect, branched, 

 hairs spreading, leaves orbicular 7-9-partite segments acute incised, stipules 

 subu ate-lanceolate, pedicels glandular-hairy, sepals long-awned, bracts 

 r/ ;^' filaments ciliate. Boiss. FL Orient, i. 877. G. bimalayeuse, 

 ^^otzsch in Meise Prinz. Waldem. 116, t. 122; Walp. Ann. vii. 485. 



lA-AA*^^^^ TEMPERATE Himalaya ; Kashmir, Falconer; Kulhara in Gahwhal, alt. 

 i^,oOO [t., .S'^racA. (6 Winter,; Pm, alt. 7-8000 ft., T. Thomson; Western Tibet; 

 |akh nver, alt. 14,000 ft., Strach. & Winter.— Dia^imB. N. Asia, and westwards to 



■^otem 2-4 ft. high, usually stout, hairs on branches and petioles often reflexed. 



^^.^^^2-3 in. dinm., variously cut; stipules usually small. Peduncles and refracted 

 ?«'ucei3 densely hairy and glandular; bracts small and slender. Flowers \{~2 in. diam., 



ue-Durple. Petals entire or notched, ciliate at the base. Filaments gradually nar- 

 ^wed upwards. Carpels glandular-hairy. Seeds reticulate. 



rectum, Trautv.; Wed 



.|P^®; Sparingly leafy and hairy, leaves opposite 5-angled 7-lobed to below 



A^ ^ membranous segments rhomboid acute and acutely incised, 



^ipules subulate-lanceolate, peduncles, very long and slenderly appressed- 



Puoescent, bracts subulate, sepals long awned, filaments ciliate. 



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, ^HMia, Falconer; in Baltal, T TAowson.— Distrib. Soongaria. 



otm 2 feet, very slender, apparently ribbed, almost glabrous. Leaves 3-4 in. diam., 

 p ?^*."^us, sparingly pilose on both surfaces, radical petioles very long and slender, 

 dia t* ^onaetimes 8 in.; pedicels very variable; bracts subulate. Flower l\\n. 

 reiiT" >^P^^^ niembranous, glabrate, narrow-oblong with a stout awn. Petals obovate, 

 Heen * ^ }^^®. ^^ ^^® ^^^7 h^^Q. Filaments gradually narrowed upwards. Carpels (not 

 m ,^^-J^^'an specimens) smooth, appressed-pubescent. Seeds smooth. — Siberian 

 two • -^'^ specimens are described as having erect fruiting peduncles and presenting 

 ^^^^^^^varieties, one glabrous, the other villous with white hairs. It differs from O. 

 J^^w in the stems not being swollen at the nodes and in the entire petals. Fal- 



*^ers 18 a single rather doubtful specimen, mixed with G. Wallichianum. 



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.^J*\ aconltlfolium, riferit. ; DC. Prodr. I 642 ; very slender, 

 aJ^^f y pubescent, much branched, 



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leaves deeply 3-9-partite segments 



stipules small siibulate, 

 liairy, filaments ciliate. 



N.^IW^*^^ Tibet, Falconer {Kew Distrih. 328).— Distrib. Alps of Switzerland and 



row r!* ♦^'®^'^®^» ^-2 fk., very sparingly hairy. Leaves 2-24 in. diara. ; segments nar- 

 •PiK'a^ or obtuse ; upper leaves sessile with the radiating lobes giving a peculiar 

 iD^-ul- ^ ^ ^^® plant. Peduncles variable in length, pedicels usually clothed with 



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sLqU f^ers smaller than in the other species of this group, 1-1| m. diara. 

 dilaLy , u^ broad. Petals obovate, rounded at the tip, glabrous. Filaments suddenly 

 the sam ^^®®- ^^^^ ^ i^-. nearly glabrous. Seeds smooth, opaque.— Apparently 



•Slandul ^ k- ^"^opean species, in which the peduncles and pedicel and calyx are 



?,T^nich is rarely the case in the Tibetan specimens; 



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