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GERANIUM WaALuicniaANum. ©WaALLIcn’s 
CRANE’S-BILL. 
Class and Order. ; 
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Monapetru1A DecanpRIA. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-phyllus, Cor. 5-petala, regularis. Nect. glandule 
5, melliferze, basi longiorum filamentorum adnate. Arilli 5, 
monospermi, aristati, ad basin receptaculi rostrati; aristis 
nudis simplicibus, (nec spiralibus, nec barbatis). 
** Pedunculis bifloris, oie ~ 
Geranium Wallichianum; pedunculis elongatis bifloris, 
foliis 5-lobis utrinque cauleque sericeo-villosis: seg- 
mentis laté cuneato-ovatis inciso-dentatis, stipulis laté 
ovalibus obtusis, caule adscendente angulato. Don.Mss. 
Grrantum Wallichianum. Don in Sweet’s Geraniacee t.90. 
‘reer 
Descr. Root perennial, cespitose. Stems many, as- 
cending, angular, purplish, nearly simple, from a span to 
two feet high, which, together with the whole plant, are’ 
thickly cloathed with soft villous hairs. Leaves cordate, — 
5-lobed, hoary. and silky, especially underneath; the 
radical ones on very long nearly filiform petioles, those _ 
of the stem opposite, on shorter petioles, of which the 
"ppermost are only 3-lobed. Peduncles long, axillar 
cylindrical, 2-, rarely 3-flowered, twice longer than the 
rks ES apa furnished at Pa 2 A ee all biti 
rarely trifid) bractes. Leafits of the calyx 1c 
oblong, nerved, ending in - awl-shaped point. 
broad, obcordate, purple, marked with numerous 
ves. 
