274 GERANIACE (Harv.) [ Pelargoniwm. 
thickish, narrow-obovate, dull-coloured petals. P. callosum, H. Mey. ! 
P. peucedanifolium, E. § Z. 518% 
Has. Groenekloof, . d& Z.! Piquetberg, Drege/ (Herb. Hook., Sond.). 
. Very like P. flavum and perhaps a mere variety, with less finely divided and 
much more glabrous leaves. The flowers are deeply yellow, with dark brown centres 
and evening-scented. Peduncles long, patently pubescent ; the umbel many-rayed, 
with ovato-lanceolate bracts. Meyer's “ P. Calloswm” is more glabrous, with 
longer ultimate leaf-segments, but otherwise very similar : and “ P. peucedanifolium, 
E. & Z.!” from Tulbaghsberg, judging from a miserably imperfect specimen in Hb. 
Sond. is not different. 
53. P. triste (Ait. Hort. Kew. 1. vol. 2. p. 418); stem short or 
scarcely any, deflexed, succulent ; radical and lower leaves bi-tri-pwn- 
nately-decompound, the segments decurrent, toothed and laciniate, the 
teeth gland-tipped ; pubescence copious, patent, pilose ; stipules sub- 
rotund, mucronate, scarious ; calyx tube striate, setulose, much longer 
than the pedicel, segments lanceolate, spreading or reflexed, half as long 
as the narrow-obovate, thickish, dull-coloured petals. DC. Prod 1. p. 
662. Bot. Mag. t. 1641. P. millefoliatum, Sw. t. 220. 
Var. «. daucifolium ; occasionally caulescent ; leaves sub-tri-pinnati- 
fid, their segments narrow. Pol. triste, E. & Z.! 512, daucifolvum, 
E.& Z.! 513 and P. multiradiatum, BE. & Z.! 521, non Wendl. 
Var. 8. filipendulifolium ; caulescent ; leaves sub-bi-pinnatifid, their 
segments broader. Ger. triste, Cav. Diss. t. 107, P. filipend. Sw. t. 85, 
E.&Z.! 511. P. papaverifolium, BE. & Z.! 508. a 
eae Q Var y.? laxatum; leaves diffusely-decompound, 4-pinnate, the _ 
Blipascla 24 pinne petiolate, the ultimate segments distant, linear, decurrent, simple 
oel- \Q ~ or pinnatifid ; pubescence scanty. P. laxatum, Harv. in Herb. Sond. 
! Has. Frequent in clayey soil, in Cape and Stellenbosch Districts. y. at the 24 
Rivers, Zeyher / (Herb. T.C,D., Hook., Sond.) 
Often quite stemless, but sometimes with a longish, unbranched, ascending or knee- 
bent stem. Leaves 8-12 inches long (in y. 2 feet long and broad), very much 
lobed and cut in an unequally pinnate order, the pairs of lacinie unequal, short and 
long mixed. Flowers dull brownish yellow, with dark spots, or the petal dark 
brown with a pale border, very sweetly aromatic at night. Peduncles long, -umbel 
“sae ig ahaa with lanceolate bracts. Our var. 7., founded on a specimen in Hb. 
Sond., has enormously ws and laxly-lobed leaves ; the primary and secondary seg- 
ments petiolulate. It probably grew under some modifying circumstances of soil or 
fs eet sta gua 
—__ ** Leaves scattered on an elongated, simple or branched, erect or ascending stem. 
Petals entire. Stipules ovate or cordate, membranous, withering. (Sp. 54-60.) 
ers sub-sessile, inner on long, villous pedicels ; calyx tube 
times longer than the obtuse, villous segments ; petals 
ae tale denier ; fertile stamens five. DC.l.c.p. — 
