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Geranium,\ xxxii. GERANiACEiE. (Edgewortli & Hook, f.) 431 



petals. Bon Prodr. 208. 



Wall. 



and 



[not of Ledebour) Wight ILL i. 153, t. 59 {coloiir ofjlower wrong ?). G. Arnot- 

 tianutn, Steud. Nomen. 677. 



-Throughout the Temperate Himalayas, alt. 5-9000 ft. ; the Khasia, Nilghiri and 

 't^DLNEY Mts., and in the higher parts of Ceylon.— Distrib. Yunan. ' 



branches sometimes rootina: {G. radicans, DC), more or less citfthed with spreading 

 or redexed hairs. Leaves 1^-24 in. diam., opposite, spreading. Peduncles nsnally 

 encler^ometimes 1 -flowered, very variable in length, spreading, reflexed after flower- 

 crf", ^wers ^-| in. diam,, pink or purple. Sepals usually hilky. Carpels hairy. 

 ^T shming, smooth. — We find no difference between the Himalayan and Peninsular 

 ^cimens. The Javanese Q, ardjunensej Zoll., may, from the description, prove to 





10- G. siblrlcum, Linn. ; DC Prodr, i. 639 ; prostrate, slender. 

 cessively branched, hoarv. leaves 5-£ronal 5-partite segments rhomboid 



^^nt. I. 879. 



^ Western TiL„,, „.., 



i^ria, Caucasus, Germany. 



!ies sieuuer i-z-novvereo, 



Lotched petals. Boiss. FU 



Thomson, — Distrib. Siberia, 



tiD { ^^^^lar at first sight to G, nepaltnse^ but more flaccid and bi'ancbed, with the 

 onl^T x-^^^ ^^ petioled, and shorter notched petals. — Thomson's specimens are the 



<»% Indian ones we have seen! 



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oECT. 2. Pedicels crowded amongst the uppermost leaves, subumbellate. 

 ,^^^-ouds ovoid or oblong, not pyramidal. Carpels wrinkled, becoming 



.j?^f-buds ovoid or oblong, not pyramidal. Carpels v 

 ueiached from their beaks wliich coil upwards elastically. 



perennial 



Kootstock stout, 



flow ' P^^yanthes, Edgew. <k Eook.f.; sparingly hairy, slender, 

 j^i^^^^g'Stems naked below, leaves orbicular- reniform 7-9-partite or 

 aw^^^^f^"^^*^ cuneate obtuse 3-7-fid, pedicels short, sepals shortly 

 fr / ; ^i?nients ciliate. Wall. Cat. 8564. G. Donianura, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 "^'^'^T^imt of Sweet. 



ft ^.^mpkrate Himalaya, Kumaon. Blinhworth; Inner valleys of Sikkim, alt. 9-12,000 

 "•'in grassy places, L D, Hooher. 



'flowe/^^ 8ii>gular species, v^lth subsimple stems 6-10 in. high, bearing clusters of 

 lately L*°^^J^^^ *be uppermost involucre-like leaves. Flower ing- stems simple or umbel- 

 ofra^* 1 *^ about the middle. Leaves 1^-2 in. diam., more or less pUose; petiole 

 ovate A '^''^ ^°°^' "PP^^ sessile and crowded under the pedicels ; stipules variable, 

 diiijr^.^^^^ate or subulate-lanceolate. Umbels 3-10-flowered ; pedicels J-I in., glau- 

 W r^' ^^ ^^"^ *^® sepals Flowers \-~l in. diam., dark-purple. Fruit erect, 1 in. 

 stvfpQ ^'^^r ^^terally compressed, keeled, strongly reticulate, glabrous ; beaks slender ; 

 ^^»es very short. .Seecis smooth. ' ' ^ 



obU J' 2- Peduncles 2- or more-flowered, crowded. Flower-buds ovoid or 

 the a5' ^^' pyramidal. Carryels smooth, their beaks remaining attached to 

 ^ '^ (not always in G. rotundifolium). 



' ^^^^^^ennid, flowers large. . >- 



haii f\ '^T^eraria, Camb. in Jacq. Voij, Bot 33, t 37; slender, erect, 

 tifid ^ ,. S/andular, leaves orbicular-reniform 5-7-partite, segments pinna- 

 WcIaI^^^ very slender, peduncles 2.flowered termmal umbelled or 

 hairv ^ y^[y hairy and glandular, sepals obtuse awned or apiculate very 

 Aig/' P^*^ retuse, filaments" ciliate \yith very lung haxrs. \\alp. Rep. 



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