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Geranium.] GERANIACEZ (Harv.) 257 
cronulate sepals. Paters. Itin. t. 14. S. Patersoni and S. L’ Heretiert. 
EL. & Z.! 436, 437. Mons. macilenta, E. Mey. and M. obcordata, ex parte, 
Drege, 7515. 
Has. In very dry places. Eastern and N. Eastern districts, Hermanskraal, and 
by the Fish River; also near Beaufort, Z.¢ Z./ Mrs. F. W. Barber! Gamke River, 
Burke and Zeyher. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
Known from S. Burmanni by its entire leaves, and from S. L’ Heretieri by the very 
minute point of the elliptical sepals. The flowers are smaller than in either. 
3. 8. L’Heretieri (DC. 1.c.); leaves obovate or obcordate, acute or 
obtuse, entire, glabrous ; petals not much exceeding the cuspidate, attenuate 
sepals. M. spinosa, Her. t. 42. M. obcordata, ex parte, EB. Mey./ 
Has. Modderfontein, Drege/ (Herb. Hook., T.C.D.). 
Best known from S. Patersoni, which is often confounded with it, by the long 
points of the sepals. The petals are larger or smaller in different specimens. 
III. GERANIUM, L. 
Sepals equal at base. Petals spreading equally. Stamens 10, all per- 
fect, the alternate longer. Glands at the base of the longer stamens. 
DC. Prod. 1. p.639. Endl. Gen, 6046. 
Herbaceous plants, rarely suffruticose ; a few shrubby or arborescent. Leaves on 
long petioles, opposite or alternate, palmately lobed. Peduncles 1-2-flowered, op- 
posite the leaves, or in the forking of the branches. Name -yepavioy, of the Greeks, 
from ‘yepayos, a crane; because the capsule with its beak resembles the head of a 
crane. The English name is Crane’s-bill. 
1, G. incanum (Linn. Sp. p. 957); suflruticose at base, diffuse, slender, 
appressedly silky ; leaves digitately 5-7-parted, the segments cut into many 
Linear lobes, pubescent on the upper, canescent on the lower surface ; 
peduncles 2-flowered ; sepals canescent ; petals entire. DC. Prod. 1. 
p. 640. Burm. Ger.t.1. Cav. Diss. t. 82.7.1. EH. & Z.! 445. Thunb. 
Cap.p. 511. Zey. 160. Drege, 7510. eke 
Has. Cape Flats; hills at the Eastern side of Table Mountain, and elsewhere in 
the Western districts, frequent. A variety with red flowers, at Van Staadensberg, 
es E & Z,! Mohblamba Range, Natal, Dr. Sutherland/ (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., 
52 
Bases of the decumbent branches woody. All parts are covered wlth short, close- 
pressed, silky hairs, but the upper sides of the leaves are green. The sepals are 
either aristate, mucronate, or simply acute. The flowers, } inch across, are white 
or a purplish-rosy. This is the “ Berg-thee” of the colonists. 
2. G. sericeum (Ha .); suffruticose, slender, decumbent ; leaves di- 
gitately 5-parted or very deeply divided, the segments cuneate, incised, 
both surfaces white, with appressed silky hairs; the long, 2-flowered 
peduncle tomentose and canescent ; petals emarginate. Ger. incanum, 
EL. Mey! non L. 
Has. Wildschutsberg and Compasberg, 5-6000 f., Drege! Zeyher! (Herb. T.C.D., 
Hook., Sond.). : 
This resembles G. canescens in the shape of its leaves, but is not glandular, and 
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every part of the plant is silvery-white, with copious, appressed silky hairs. Flowers __ 
red. 
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_ 8. G. canescens (L Her. t. 38); suffruticose at base, slender, diffuse; = or 
leaves deeply 3—5-lobed, the lobes cuneate and cut, appressedly pubescent = 
