Tas. 5206. 
ERODIUM pELARGONIIFLORUM. 
Pelargonium-flowered Stork’ s-bill. 
Nat. Ord. GeRaNIACE#.—MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala 5, eequalia, in calcar seu tubum nectariferum nulla producta. 
Petala 5, regularia aut irregularia. Stamina decem, filamentis basi monadelphis, 
5 antheriferis, 5 alternis sterilibus. Glandule 5 ad basin staminum sterilium. 
Carpellorum ariste intus barbate, demum elastice. spiraliter torte.—Herbe aut 
sufirutices, foliis variis, pedunculis sepius multi-rarissime 1-floris. De Cand. 
Erovium pelargoniiforum ; perenne viride totum pilis papillaribus nitidis con- 
spersum viscidulum, rhizomate squamis petiolaribus et stipularibus ve- 
tustis vestito, caulibus fragilibus adscendentibus elongatis ramosis, foliis 
teneris radicalibus longe petiolatis ovato-cordatis obsolete 3-lobis indivi- 
sisque acutiuscule dentatis, stipulis bracteisque oblongis oblonge acuminatis 
valde hispidis albo-membranaceis, pedunculis umbellatim 8—10-floris, pedi- 
cellis longe hispidis flore triplo longioribus, sepalis oblongis albis viridi- 
3—5-lineatis ad costas longe papilloso-ciliatis mucrone eis dimidio breviori 
terminatis, petalis obovatis basi subciliatis albis 2 inferioribus macula pur- 
purea in 5 lineas ramulosas superne extensa insignitis, carpellis parce et 
adpresse hirsutis, cauda adpresse hirsuta eis quadruplo longiori. Boiss, 
Eropium pelargoniiflorum. Boiss. e¢ Heldr. in Pl. Exsic. Anatol. 1846; et in 
Diagnos. Plant. Orient. Nov. v. 8. p. 118. Walp. Annal. v. 2. p. 234. 
v. 4. p. 395. Regel’s Garten-Flora, v. 1. p. 195. t. 19. 
From the collection of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., Hillfield, 
Reigate, where the shelves of a very cool, airy greenhouse were 
enlivened by its sparkling blossoms. In the days when the 
Geraniacee were cultivated extensively as botanical objects, this 
would have been very much prized; but that time is gone by, 
and their place is taken by the “General Tom Thumb,” the 
** Golden Chain,” and others, which render our flower-beds, in 
summer, objects of such universal admiration. The present is 
a recently-discovered species, by Heldreich, of the Hrodium ge- 
nus, in Anatolia, growing on shady rocks and among caves be- 
tween Karaman and Ermenek, at an elevation of 3,000 feet 
above the level of the sea. It may therefore be expected to suc- 
ocTOBER Ist, 1860. 
