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430 xxxri. GERANiACE^. ' (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Geranium. 



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segments cuneate obtusely 3-5-lobed, stipules small ovate acute, pedicels 

 appressed-pubescent or glandular-hairy, sepals shortly awned, filaments 

 ciliate at the base. Boiss. Fl Orient i. 874. G. multifidum, Don Prodr. 207. 

 G. Donianum, Wall, Cat 8565; Sweet Geran, sub tab, 338. ■■■'■' 



Western Tibet, Zanskar, Pm, and Kunawer, alt. 12-14,000 ft., Jacquemont.kc] 

 Kashmir, Falconer; Nifal, WalUch; Gakwhal, 9-11,000 ft., Edgeicorth; mdtf 

 vallc.\s of SiKKiM Himalaya, J. D. E —Bisthjb, Affghanistan, Siberia, S. Russia.^ 

 . In its common Tibetan form this is a sbort hoary-pnbescent or glandular specie?, '^'Jtn 

 many subsiraple flowering stems, 6-10 in. high, orbicular (not angled) leaves, with 

 obtusely cut often slender lobes, slender peduncles and pedicels, and large flowers. 

 — Afiglianistan specimens are taller, more slender, and branched. , '\ 



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■ 6. G. Tpalustre, Linn.; DC, Prodr, I 642; rather tall, ])ubescent or 

 hairy, leaves pentagonal palmately 5-lobed lobes rhomboid acute pen- 

 natifidly incised, stipules subulate-lanceolate, peduncle^ long glandulaf- 

 hairy, sepals awned, petals obovate rounded at the tip. Boiss. FL Orient, i 

 874. G. grandiflorum, Edgew, in Trans, Linn. Soc, xx. 42. 



Kashmir, Falconer; Kumaon, *at Mana, alt. 9-11,000 ft., Edgeworth,—^^'^^^ 



Siberia, Caucasus, Mid. and N. Europe. 



Very similar to large states of O, colliuvm, but the flowers are larger, nearlv 2 in. 

 diani., and leaves pentagonal in outline from their segments being more producea. 

 The identification with G.jpalustre is doubtfuL . ;.' 



7. G. Walliohlanum, Sweet Geraii. t. 90 ; DC Prodr. I 641 ; taU, 

 robust, much branched, leaves 5-gonal deeply 3-5-lobed segments rhomboia 

 acuminate incised, stipules very large broadly oblong or almost ruundea 

 obtuse, bracts large, pedicels long, sepals long-awned, filaments cuiate at 

 the base. Wight Ic, t, ZU \ Wall. Cat 8658; Don Prodr. 208, V 



TEMrEUATE Himalaya, alt. 7-11,000 ft., from Nipal, WallicJi, to llsivv\ Fkmivg^ ^. 



More or less pilose or villous with spreading or reflexed hairs, which are rarely gl^^* 

 dnlar. Leaves 3^ in. broad, segments acutely cut ; stipules 4-1 in. long, very broa - 

 Brads usually 4, linear-oblong, ^in. long, obtuse, acute or acuminate. Flowers l\'^ ^^' 

 diam. Petals obovate, retuse, Filaments suddenly dilated at the base, tarpe ^ 

 pilose. Seeds smooth.— The very large solitary stipules beat distinguish this specie«. \ 



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lum, Wall Cat 8559 ; PL As. Bar. iii. t. 209 ; roou^ 

 or slender, hairy and glandular, branched, leaves 5-gonal ^'C^^V o^T^r 

 the middle segments rhomboid acute or acuminate incised, ^^^l^^^^l, ^.^g 

 in pairs ovate acuminate, pedicels long slender, sepals long-awned, tilanien 

 villous with long hairs. G. eriostemon, Don Prodr. 208, not of ^^cff\ 

 1G. Lamberti, Sweet Geran. t. 338 G. Backhousianum, Beget Desow':^ 

 Plant. N(A\ 1873, 32. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 8-11,000 fl , from Kumaon to Sikkim. , .gj 



A tall branched species, resembling G. WaUichianum, but distinguished by tue ^^^ 



or bipartite stipules and very villous filaments; it varies much in P^^^^p^*^ ^-^i 

 glandular often reflexed hairs, being sometimes almost villous or velvetjr. -^"^^Z jg,.^ 

 mid ptdicds slender, clothed with spreading glandular hairs; bracts linear, si '- 

 Flowers I-I4 in. diam. Petals obovate, tip rounded or retuse, hairy at the ^^^^\ ny 

 coloured, or very pale with a purplish eye (in Sikkim specimens). Filaments graa 

 narrowed upwards. Carpels pihse. i&eed^ smooth, ., * "; 



** Flowers less than an inch in diameter (see also 14, G. rotundifolm ,| 



' 9. 6. nepalense, Sweet Geran. t. 12 ; slender, diffuse, much ^ra^Jtlte 

 hairy or villuus, eglandular, leaves 5-gorial deeply 3-5-lobed or -V*, 



upper seisile segments rhomboid incised, stioules »»*>"l^*^'^f^'^ pntire 

 peduncles glender i-2-fid, sepals shortly awned almost mii|^lj'"S t"^ ^ • 





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