Suan “ ag Ww 
ae 
Sy es 
Cav, Diss. t. 97. f. 3. Sw, Cer. ¢ 
454. Sep sega Se 
258 GERANIACE® (Harv.) [Erodium 
above, canescent beneath ; the long, 2-flowered peduncle, the calyces and 
carpels clothed with gland-tipped hairs ; petals emarginate. DC. Prod. 
lc. p.640. G. glandulosum, Lehm.! in E. & Z.! 447. Drege, 7511. 
Has. Near Somerset, Hott. Holland, 7.4 Z./ At the Paarl, Rev. Mr. Elliott. 
(Herb. T.C.D., Sond.). 
Leaves much less deeply divided and with broader lobes than in G. incanum. The 
stems, peduncles and petioles are thinly tomentose ; the glandular hairs look like a 
small Mucor. Drege’s 7511 is thrice the usual size, but not otherwise different. 
4. G. ornithopodum (E. & Z.! 449); suffruticose at base, sub-erect ; 
leaves deeply 5-lobed, the lobes cuneate and cut, pubescent on the upper, 
villous and pale on the lower side ; branches, petioles and peduncles 
densely villous, with long, white, simple (or glandular !) hairs. Drege, 
7513! also G. contortum, E. & Z.! 450, and G. flexuosum, E. Mey. 
Has. Ceded territory, Z. ¢ Z./ Mountains near Grahamstown, Zeyher/ (Herb. 
T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
This is chiefly known from G. canescens by the villous or softly shaggy, patent, 
not appressed and silky pubescence. The glandular hairs are, I fear, no constant 
mark of either species. A specimen from Port Natal is almost intermediate between 
the two. G.contortum, E. & Z.! is scarcely worth distinguishing. 
5. G. caffrum (E. & Z.! 448); suffruticose at base, diffuse, slender ; 
branches angular ; leaves green on both sides, digitately 3-5-parted, the 
segments lanceolate, inciso-pinnatifid, the upper surface sparsely and 
minutely appresso-puberulent, ower glaucous and glabrous, except along 
the strigilose nerves ; the 2-flowered peduncles, calyces and carpels 
mostly glandular and pubescent; petals emarginate. Drege, 7512! 
Zeyher, 2038! 
Has. Kat River, F & Z./ Zwartkops, Zey./ Zuureberg, Klipplaat River, and near 
Rhinosterkopf, Nieuweveld, Drege! Albany, Mrs. F. W. Bi ! (Herb. T.C.D., 
Hook., Sond.). 
The least hairy of the Cape species, though far from glabrous. The hairs are very 
minute, rigid and close-pressed. Flowers white. The glandular hairs vary in 
copiousness, in different specimens. 
IV. ERODIUM, LHer. 
Sepals equal at base. Petals spreading equally. Stamens 5, perfect, 
bearing anthers ; 5 sterile, subulate or obsolete. Glands at the base of 
the sterile stamens. Hndl. Gen. No. 6045. DC. Prod. 1. p. 644. 
Herbaceous plants, rarely suffruticose, with pinnate-parted, lobed or entire leaves 
_ and membranous stipules. Peduncles mostly umbellately many-flowered, rarely one- 
_ flowered. Name from epwdu0s, a heron ; because of the long-beaked fruit. 
_ Sine Heron's bill, 
* Perennial. (Sp. 1-2.) 
(L’Her. Ger. t. 5); suffruticose at base, the stems 
angular, glabrous ; leaves on very long petioles, scaberulous, the lowest 
COnemS, Crenate, the rest digitately-tripartite, with deeply cut or 2-3-parted 
ae oo subulate, ciliate; peduncles several-flowered ; petals 
ong as the lanceolate, setose sepals, DC. Prod. 1. p. 648. 
94 | Bot, Mag. t.261, E.d Z/ No. 
