Pelargonium. | GERANIACEE (Harv.) Se. 
Has. Hott. Holl., near Palmiet River, #. & Z./ Zwarteberg and Caledon’sbad, 
Zeyher! Cult, in England, 1787. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
A beautiful little plant, with multifid, much-lobed foliage, and bright crimson (or 
flesh-coloured) flowers. The petals are each marked with a dark and light band. 
The foliage and general aspect are those of Pelarg. patulum, B.; but the flowers are 
very different. Stipules and bracts rigidly ciliate, subulate. 
2. E. arduinum (Willd. 3. p. 637); “stemless; leaves cordate, 5- 
lobed, crenate, obtuse ; peduncles many-flowered.” DC. Prod. 1. p. 648. 
Has. South Africa, Burmann. : 
Of this I know nothing. Perhaps a var. of the preceding. 
** Annual or biennial. 
3. E. maritimum (L’Her.): annual or biennial, diffuse, pubescent ; 
leaves on long petioles, cordate, obtuse, pubescent, crenate ; stipules sub- 
rotund ; peduncles 1-3-flowered, shorter than the leaves; sepals oval, mu- 
cronate, longer than the petals. DC. Prod. 1.p, 648. Thunb. Cap. p. 511. 
Cav. Diss. t. 88. f.1. £. Bot. t. 646. 
Has. Paardeberg, Thunberg. 
Of this I have seen no Cape specimens. Leaves 3 inch long. The whole plant is 
much smaller than the following, which resembles it. E. & Z.’s ‘‘£. maritimum,” 
No. 452, belongs, according to Ecklon’s original specimens in Herb. Sond., to Pelarg. 
chameedryfolium. 
4, E. malachoides (Willd. 3. p. 639); annual or biennial, diffuse, 
hispidulous ; lower leaves on long petioles, cordate-ovate, obtuse, pubes- 
cent, unequally cut or lobed, upper deeply 3-parted and jagged ; stipules 
ovate, obtuse ; peduncles elongate, several flowered ; sepals oval, aristate, 
so @ualling the petals. DO. Prod. t. p.648. Cav. Diss, t. 91. f. ¥. 
' Has. Sands near Greenpoint, W.H.H. (Herb. T.C.D.). 
A diffuse or prostrate annual, varying much in size and in the cutting of the leaves. 
Branches often 1-2 feet long, hispid. Beak of the fruit 11 inches long. A littoral 
ine plant in the South of Europe, the Canary Islands, North Africa, and even in Peru. — 
The Cape specimens are very similar to the 
A 5. E. moschatum (Willd. Sp. 3. p. 631); biennial, procumbent; /eaves 
pinnati-partite, segments petiolulate, ovate, obtuse, unequally toothed 
and cut, hispidulous ; stipules broadly ovate, filmy ; peduncles elon- 
gate, many-flowered, glandularly pubescent ; sepals mucronate, shorter 
than the petals. DC. Prod.1.p.647. E.& Z./ 453. Jacq. Vind. t. 55. 
|. . Bot, t. go2. 
ar cultivation. Introd. from Europe (Herb. T.C.D.). 
wing plant, sometimes cut for fodder, and sometimes grown in gardens 
y fragrance. The leaves are fern-like, 6-12 inches long, variably pubes- 
cent. It is common to Europe, N. Africa, and 8S. America. 
Fe ec V. PELARGONIUM. L’Her. 
Calyx 5-parted, the uppermost segment produced at base into a slen- 
der, nectariferous tube, which is decurrent along the pedicel, and adnate 
to it. Petals 5, rarely but 4, or 2, more or less unequal. Filaments 10, 
unequal, monadelphous ; 2-7 fertile, the rest without anthers. DC. 
Prod. 1. p.649. Endl. Gen. No. 6048. é ee eee 
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