440 XXXII. GERANiACEJE. (Edgewortli & Hook, f.) [Conmropsis. 



regular, in terminal and axillary panicled cymes. Sepals 5, imbricate, connate 

 at the base. Fetah 5, imbricate. Glands 0. iStamem 10, filaments united 

 at the base, the alternate shorter. Ovary 5-angled, 5-celled ] styles o, 

 subulate, stigmas apiculate ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit fleshy, 5-lobed 

 PiSTKiB. Three species, all from the Malayan archipelago. 



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1. C. monophylla, Planch, in Herb. Hook. ; leaves 1-foliolate, leaflefe 

 ovate obtusely acuminate shining above glaucous beneath, panicles pube- 

 rulous of slender spiciform erect branches. 



Malacca, Griffith^ Cuming, Maingay. . i <? 



-A small round-headed tree. Leaflets 2-3 in., quite entire; petiole J ^°-'^^i I" 

 Panicles 3-5 in. long. Sepals pubescent. CoroUa euburceolate ; petals oblong, blooa- 

 red, tips subrecurved. Ovary pilose. Fruit obtusely angled, 5-turrowed; ^^^^^^ 

 fibrous, sending outwards fibres which reticulately divide the saicocarp. Alhumtn 

 copious; embryo green, radicle terete. {Descr. chiefly from Griffith's notes.) - 



2. C. Grlffithii, Planch, in Herb. Hook ; leaves 3-foliolate ovate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate long-acuminate opaque above, panicles short broaa 

 tomentose. Hookf. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 166 {name only). 



Malacca, Griffith, Maivgay. 



A small tree. Branches woody, bark black. Leaflets 2\-^ in., pale, pubescent, as 

 are their short petioles ; nerves remote ; petiole | in., that of the leaflets \ in. ^^P^i 

 cence ferruginous. Flowers ubually all antheriferous. Stamens usually on the old woou, 



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 described as Rourea diversifolia by Miquel {Fl Ind, Bat, Suppl 528), a view ^ ^*^°^j 

 adopt, seeing that Miquel put it not only in a wrong genus, but in a wrong ^^]^^n 

 Order, and that the trivial oame diversifolia is not applicable. Moreover, I ^ouDi ^• 

 Griffithii being the same with Miquel's plant, which latter has lucid leaves, ^^^^^ 



-. those of a Griffithii are singularly opaqne.---PrwzY acid^ eaten cooked, pickled or jr ^ 

 served with sugar. Leaves irritable to the touch. 



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8. ZMPATZENS, Linn. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Herbs, rarely shrubby at the base. Leaves opposite or alternate, in some 

 whorled, in others all radical, simple, exstipuhite, or with stipular gianoj 

 at the base of the petiole. Flowers in scapes, or in axillary or fermi" 

 1-2-many-flowered peduncles, irregular, resupinate. Sepals 3 rarely s, i 

 bncate; 2 anterior when present minute: 2 lateral small,. flat, usu* j 



l-etals 3 (or 5} ; anterior (outer m bud} large ; idtcia^ nyJ-o 

 !). Stamens 5, filaments short, broad ; anthers cohering, ^^r 

 r, 6-celled ; stigma sessile, 5-toothed ; ovules many, 1-s^'"^^ , 



green ; posterior (anterior in flower) large, petaloid, produced into f ji<^" ^ 

 spur or sac Petals 3 (or 5) : anterior (outer in bud) large ; lateral JS-jo^ 

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Ovary oblong, ^ _,.^ 



each cell. Capsule locuUcrdal f valves 5," eiastically springing" away ti^™ " 

 placentiferous axis. Seeds smooth or tubercled, glabrous or hairy, ai 

 menO; embryo straight.— Distrib. Mountains of trop. Asia and A tnca,'^ 

 m temp. Europe, N. America, N. Asia, and S. Africa; species about io|^ _ 



The species of Impaliens are difficult of determination, in a dried state e»P«^' ^ 

 and for Beddome's I am chiefly dependent on his published plates, ^'""'-r^nywine 

 ■ fertihzed in the bud occur in some species apart from the others. ^'^^ ' ^^i jy. 

 arrangement is that suggested by myself in the Journal of the Linnean S"Ciet3\ ^ ^^. 

 p. 106 (Dec. 1859), with the addition of the Peninsula species subsequently descn ^^^^ 

 BedJome, and with the important change 'consequent on dividing the gepus " j^j^g^ 

 priupipal groups, a Himalayan, with slender terete or obovate capsules, ana a ^^^_ 

 Peninsular group, with the capsule short and swollen in the niiddle."--lo* ^^^2 



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