Tan. 4946. 
PELARGONIUM Enp.LicHERIANUM. 
Endlicher’s Crane’s-bill. 
Nat. Ord. GrranracE®.—MoNADELPHIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, lacinia suprema in calear seu tubulum nectari- 
ferum tenuem secus pedunculum decurrentem et huic adnatum. Pefala 5, ra- 
rius 4, plus minus irregularia. Filamenta 10, inaequalia, monadelpha, 4-7 tan- 
tum fertilia, cetera castrata.— Species omnes, paucis exceptis, ad Caput Bonze Spei 
crescunt, 
_PEetarconium Endlicherianum; molliter pubescens, rhizomate polycephalo crasso, 
caulibus simplicibus erectis, foliis radicalibus reniformibus grosse crenatis 
summis ultra medium quinquefidis, umbella longe pedunculata 3-8-flora, 
petalorum posticis duobus maximis obovato-cuneatis subtruncatis repando- 
undulatis roseis venis 5 ramosis purpureis, anticis tribus inzequalibus calyce 
dimidio brevioribus oblongis integris v. 3-5-fidis, staminibus declinato-ad- 
scendentibus glabris basi monadelphis, fertilibus sterilia dimidio superanti- 
bus. Fenzl. 
PrLarcontum Endlicherianum. “ Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Pugill.v.1.p.6. Abbildungen 
und Beschreibungen Seltn. Pflnzn. t. 3. Atlas zu Russeger’s Reise, Hft. 2. 
t. 3.” Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 2. p. 820. Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 1. p. 141. 
The genus Pelargonium was rightly separated by L’Heéritier 
from Geranium ; and the numerous species were long believed to 
be peculiar, not only to the southern hemisphere, but to the Cape 
Colony. Of late years however South Australia and the South- 
Sea Islands have yielded a few species; and more recently still 
the western Taurus has afforded the very handsome species here 
represented. I regret that I have not access to Fenzl’s works, 
where this plate is figured and described, nor to the travels of 
Russeger, where a figure is also quoted; so that I am unable 
to take advantage of any information given there, beyond the 
specific character copied into Walpers. We received seeds from 
the Botanic Garden of Copenhagen, from which plants were 
raised, that flowered in a cool greenhouse in July, 1856. 
Descr. Rootstock “large.” Stems several from the same root, 
erect, simple, terete, herbaceous, soft with fine down, which in- 
vests all the plant, petals excepted, slightly swollen at the joints. 
NOVEMBER lst, 1856. 
