Geranium.] xxxii. qeraniace^. (Edg-eworth & Hook, f.) 433 



keeled seeds punctulate. Boiss. Fl Orient, i. 883. G. LindleyanTim, 

 «oyle III. 151, t. 27 . 



^.^^y Temperate Himalaya, alt. 6-8000 ft., fvom Kashmir, Falconer, to Gakwiial, 



A '^J- f^«'«''-— DiSTKiB. Siberia, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Europe* 

 Icaf,^' r ''**'^®'" succulent annual or biennial. Branches 6-18 in., brittle, 



sfrZl I^^-T h'? '"• ^'■°*^ ■' P^*'°^*^ ^0"?=^ ; stipules ovate, i-'fower.* 4 in. diam., 

 ireaKea with dark and light red. Fetak narrow, claw glabrous.. Fruit |-I in.; 



ZZ l^IP f separating upwards from the axis and attached to its apex by silky 

 uiirs.— Herb. Robert," 



]2l' **• Juoidum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 644 ; annual, glabrous, shinin?, 

 ^ves orbicular 5-7-lobed lobes 5-fid cuneate, pedicels with a series of 

 cnl f ' ?^Pt , ^^ng-awned shorter than the spathulate petals, carpels reti- 

 1 " ^^^ Jceeled nearly ghabrous, seeds smooth. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 884 G. 

 ^mtnm, Jioi/le III. 150. , .... 



ernperate Western Himalava ; from Kishtwar to Kumaon, alt. 6-9000 ft,— Distrib. 



•^^a bjna, the Caucasus, Europe, N. Africa. 



J-Ii ' T^*' ^^ch-hranched, brittle herb, with usually briprbt red brancbes. Leaves 

 i^l<ncT ii^'*' lobes short broad; stipules acute. P^^^wncZe^ longer than the petioles, 

 ^labro^* h ^i!' ^^'^^' Sepals wrinkled. Petals rose-red, claw glabrous. Fruit \ in., 

 theaxi*' ^^^^ slender; carpels small, separating both from their beak and 



t. 



pyA*'' ^<5eUatum, Oamh. in Jacq. Voy. Bot 33, t. 38; annual, hoary- 

 leavPQ ^ I ^^ '^^^y ^^^ glandular, excessively branched, prostrate, slender, 

 obcord 7 f^ 5-7-lobed lobes cuneate 3-5-fid, petals large broadly 





acuminate 



Kashxhr-*^^ Punjab; temperate and subtropical Himalaya, alt. 1-6000 ft., from 

 Aufi^y^ ^^^ *"® Salt Range to E. Nipal ; Behar, on the top of Parusnath, 



aD(3gyl^ f^^^So'ing species. Leaves i-2 in. diam. Peduncles sometimes clustered, 

 \ in (jk ^^ ^^ ^- '^^^^'^o.r'ia, at others axillary solitarr and 1 -flower 'd. Flowers 



wrinkled f' '"^^^'^^'^ui't^d with a dark purple eye. Sepals rigid after flowering, 

 wparatinfr'f^ Pressure against Abe carpels. Fruit erect, | in. longj carpels small, 

 8^ininff '^ i^^^ *^*^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^K which latter eventuallv coils up elastically. Seeds 

 b, pale.— Found in E. Ninal fTambur river), but not hitherto in ISikkim. 



' '■ DOUBTFUL AND UKKNOWN SPECIES. 



'^ETEROTR 



giteii kI^S^^V^*'^^*'^ ^^oyle, Z.c— Of this and the preceding species no information is 



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4. EXlODZUMt, L'Herit. 

 Herb 



nodes r^*"^^^ undershrubs, with the branches swollen or jointed at the 

 'isuallv ^f'^T* opposite, often alternately smaller, stipulate. Flowers 

 ^nibricatp 'IT' ^" axillary 1-flowered or umbelliferous peduncles. Sepals 5, 

 *Jt«maHn -^^^^^^ 5> hypogynous, with alternating glands. Staviens 5, 

 %les%"^,."'^ith 5 staminode.?. Ovari/ 5-lobed, 5-celled long-beaked ; 

 ^<';'.sa2^% i'?^?*ose longitudinally: ovules 2, superposed m each cell. 

 »«Ptiwflw "^ ^-.c^lletl. cells 1-seeded;* carpels indehi scent, separating 

 base tn ft^ "°"^ t^e axis, their beaks elastically coiling upwards from tbe, 

 ^ wthe apex of the i^is, hairy on the Inner surface, each with usually. 





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