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Erodium.] xxxiT. GERANiACE^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 435 



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exceed I ngtlie sepals. Ovary silky.' Cai^els hrov^ih stJpitate, with stiff white hairs, 

 •pliton the back; beak 3-1 in. long, 3-4 times the length of the cell, rough on the 

 outer side, in the inner side with long brown hairs and a few seim, hairy to the tip. 

 ■Iflis resembles .£?. chium and (tgyptiacwnij which differ in their mucronatc sepals. 



1 h ^' malacoldes, WUld. ; DC Prodr. i, 648 ; annual, leaves 3-fid or 

 lacerate shortly pubescent, sepals awned, carpels pitted below the beak. 

 ^om.FL Orimt. i. 893. • . - . 



/^Panjab i^aZconer; Indus -Valley at Attok, Peshawur, and Hazara, Stewart— 

 T^f' ? ?'^^^»"d to S. Europe and N. Africa. v r V 



ooflly hairy, hairs on the stem deflexed. .Stems erect or diffuse, elongate,^ 

 arched. Leaves ovate- oblong, acute or obtuse, shortly appressed-pubescent^ lower 

 mate; stipules large, scaiious, acute or obtuse. Infiorescence glandular; peduncles 

 -manjr-tiowered ; bracts ovate, scarious, ciliate.. Sepals membranous, two outer 5- 



FOn ^^'^^^ 3-nerved, awn hairy. Petals ciliate at the base, bbdvate, lilac, ^9-'iierved; 



^uainents glabrous, lanceolate. Staminodes linear. • Ovary hairy. Carpels stipitate, 



in?^?^"^' fetose ; beak 4-5 times as long as the cell, with stiff brown hairs for i of its 



Wh; pits with a deep fold. . ■ /..^ . ; 



^- V -Beak of carpels pluniose on the ventral face, with long soft cilia. 





tooth^' ^^^P^^^^'O^f Edgtw. ; hoary, annual, leaves oblong crenate- 

 menf "r ^^ or nnequaliv pinnatifid, sepals silkily hoary apiculate, fila- 

 Wri ti^ *'^ 5 inner the broadest, carpels slender hispid with transverse 

 7^^*^,^^ at the tip of the valves, beak very long. ,. , 



;5^^^^^*^N Tibet? Yigne {Herb, Fatconer); Panjab beyond the Indus in Bannu 



■ewart. 



shane u^^^' ^^}, apparently annual; branches' straggling. Leaves \~1 in., variable in 

 short ' ^7^ '^^ hnear-oblong ; petiole slender. Peduncles several-flowered; pedicels 

 eQ(j„m -^^^^^^^s 4 in. diam. Sepals concave, strongly 3-nerved. Petals narrow-cuneate, 

 b^Q^^^S the sepals. Filaments subulate, ciliate, the inner series much the largest and 

 transv i ^^^^ ^"^ '"•» slender, erect; carpels slender, narrowed into a stipes, terete, 

 Wa h ^i; ^^^^^^^ at the base of the beak, covered with stiff hairs with swollen 

 trichJi ^^^^.^^^^ranous, silkv, hairs fulvons.— A very close ally of Monsonia hetero- 

 % Dotwithstanding the different stamens. 



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I'fif^.^ ^*** '--i 'i DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. . 



SsTf-T^^^^™* Twr^. Mosc, Bull xxxvi. i. 592. ^' CaBspitos.^, diffuse, pilose, 

 Mun 1 o cordate obtuse sinuate-lobate crenate, with scattered adpressed hairs, 

 rofc* *^i?p ^^^^^«^red, calyx aristate, fruit de»sely hairy."— Western Peninsula, Per- 

 ^ens not S^^'^us, stalk 4^5 in. long, arista not plumose when young."— Speci- 



., <^Meen, only known from the above (? ifomonia senegcdensis) , 



'fiiumVh^^^^^^^'^' ^c^'^^cht. Herb, Lid, Or, 1560, is an introduced Cape PeZar^ro- 

 ""^ \^* grossukirioides). 



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5. OXAIiZS, Linn. 



stihuiff^^'"^^' '^^^^^y strubby. Leaves radical or alternate, stipulate or ex- 

 flo^ertrf ' ^"">P«und, usually 3-foliolate. Floivers on axiUary 1- or more- 

 contortP^^^ /V,°^^^^' regular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, 

 all antl, u ^^^^ of the disk 0. Stamens 10, free or united at the base, 

 minal n "v ^""& ' Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled : styles 5, distinct, stigma ter- 

 MthwfP^h^-fid or laciniate; ovules 1 or ino'te in each cell Cajmle 

 aeshy^^T^*ial dehiscence, valves persistent to the axis. Seeds with an outer 

 embrvn.* ."*J'^^<^^ bi*rsts elastically, testa criVsraceoiis, albumen fleshy; 

 S. Amlv '^^'--^DiSTRiB. Species about 200, chiefly tropical and temperate 



^^ and S. African, 



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