262 GERANIACEH (Harv.) [ Pelargoniui ’ 
acute or sub-obtuse, with immersed veins, glabrescent, softly pubescent, 
or puberulous, often ciliated ; stipules linear-subulate, acuminate, pubes- = 
cent; scapes branching, pubescent or villous, with villous bracts amd 
pluri-flowered umbels ; calyx glanduloso-pubescent and thinly villous, the — 
segments lanceolate, acute, gland-tipped, with very narrow, membranous 
margins. DC. Prod. 1. p.649. Cav. Diss. t. 102.f.1. P. lancecefolum, 
Sw. Ger. t. 387, and P. auriculatum, Sw. t. 395. 
die Vict _ VAR. a. virgineum; leaves mostly entire; flowers flesh-coloured, or 
wes ee white and veiny, upper petals obovato-spathulate. P. virgineum, Pers. 
YMOS DO.le. P. undulatum, Andr. Rep. t. 317. Hoarew, Sp. E. & Z.! No. 
462, 463, 464, 469, 470. Drege, No. 9519, 7494. 
Var. 8. longiflorum; leaves mostly entire; flowers primrose-colour, 
with dark lines or spots ; petals very long and narrow-linear, P. longt- 
Jlorum, Jacq. Ic. t. 521. P.depressum, Jacq. Ic. t. 520. Sw. Ger. t. 290- 
Hoaree, E. § Z.! No. 466, 472. P. otites, H. Mey.! 
Var. y. laciniatum; leaves entire and inciso-pinnatifid ; flowers flesh- 
coloured or white, with dark lines or spots ; upper petals obovato-spa- 
thulate. P. laciniatum, Pers. DOC.l.c. Andr. Rep. t. 131, t. 204. 
auriculatum, Willd., DC. l.c. p. 651. Sw. Ger. t. 395. P. ciliatum, Jacq. 
oH t. 519. Hoarew, E. § Z.! No. 473, 474, 478. P. purpurascens, Pers.! 
ace 
Var.? 4, ciliatum ; leaves ovate or ovato-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 
not tapering at base, rigidly ciliolate, glabrous or pubescent. P. cilvatum, . 
DL’ Her. Ger.t.7. DO.l.c.p.650. P. auriculatum, EB. Mey.! Herb. Drege. _ 
H. erythrophylla, E. & Z.! 457. Hoarew, Zey.! 175, 2043. 
Has. Dry clayey or sandy ground, chiefly in the western districts, common. 
(Herb. 'T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) : : : 
Very variable in the shape of the leaves, and the amount of the pubescence, which 
is always soft and silky ; sometimes the leaves are quite glabrous. Var. 5. may 
perhaps be a species. The other synonyms quoted appear to me undistinguishable. 
2, P. Meyeri (Harv.); leaves on rigidly ciliate petioles, ovate, obtuse, 
coriaceous, glabrous or nearly so, entire ; stipules adnate, lin.-subulate, 
ciliate ; scapes branched, pluri-flowered, with subulate, setulose bracts ; 
calyx sub-sessile, the glandularly pubescent tube not twice as long as 
the lanceolate, strigulose segments ; petals obovate. P. ficaria, E. Mey.! 
in Hb, Drege, non Willd. P. ovalifolium, E. & Z.! 461, non Sw., also _ 
 — -Hoaree, E.& Z.! 459, 460. 
_. Has. Between Eikenboom and Riebe! C: 
terg and near Constantia, E, $ Z.! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
3, L’Her.) which is said to be ent from the 
b.? Cap. p. 514, non 
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LHer.); leaves on 
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