rhage ere weal 
278 GERANIACE (Harv.) [ Pelargonium. 
Very like P. schizopetalum, but the leaves are more ovate, much less deeply lobed, © 
and the upper surface is glabrous and the margin purple. The flowers are rather 
larger and all the petals suffused with purple ; the pubescence of the calyx is dif- 
ferent, and the wmbel has more rays. 
66. P. caffrum (E. & Z.! 524); stem short and succulent ; radical 
leaves on long petioles, somewhat digitately pinnatt-partite or sub-ln- 
pinnati-par tite, the segments narrow-linear, very entire, with revolute mar- 
gins, sub-acute, sparsely villous, especially on the nerves ; stipules lanceo- 
late, acuminate ; scapes much longer than the leaves, villous; umbel 
many-flowered, the pedicels longer than the bracts, slender, and, as 
well as the calyx, villous ; petals bi-partite, their segments fimbriato- 
multifid. 
= we Winterberg, Caffr., E. § Z./ Van Staadensberg, Uit., Zeyher! (Herb. Sond., 
OOK. 
Distinguished from the two preceding species by the narrow, linear segments of 
the multi-partite leaves. In an old specimen, without special locality, im Herb. 
Hook., the petals are very dark, almost black ; in those collected by Zeyher they 
are brownish-yellow, with purple lines. The leaves occasionally vary to palmatifid, 
with broad lobes, glaucous below. 
in Secor. 4. OTIDIA. Root branching. Stem succulent and knobby. 
a Leaves fleshy, pinnately or bi-pinnately divided. Stipules minute. Petals 
narrow, nearly equal, the two upper eared at base. Fertile stamens 5. 
f Sco often dichotomous; umbels few or pluri-flowered ; fl. small. 
P: 97-72. 
67. P. carnosum (Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 421); stem succulent, the 
branches swollen at the nodes ; leaves shortly petiolate, oblong, deeply 
pinnatifid, somewhat fleshy, puberulous or glabrous, the segments flat, 
a cuneate, sharply cut or sub-pinnatifid ; stipules small, ovate, acute ; 
peduncles long, branched, hispidulous; umbel many-flowered with short 
ovato-lanceolate bracts; pedicels patently setose, much longer than the 
calyx-tube, which is swollen at base, calyx segments lanceolate, acute, 
hispidulous. DC. Prod. 1. p.655. EH. dé Z.! 525. Dul. Eth. t. 127. fig. 
154. Sw. Ger. t.98! P. laxum, EF. § Z.! 527, non Sw. P. dasycaulon, 
E. & Z. ! 526, non Sims? P. crassicaule, H. Mey.! non LI’ Her. 
Has. In or clayey places, eastern districts. Between Zwartkops and Son 
Rivers, iinies., pate am Fish River, Albany, EZ. & Z./ pier Fs Little ss 
= kind Fish River, Drege! Albany, Mrs. F. W. Barber’ (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., 
ice ‘Stem 1-2 feet high, clumsy, not much branched ; the branches slender, with smaller 
leaves, or somewhat naked. Leaves 2-4 inches long, not cut quite to the mid-rib, 
the segments 2-4 lines wide. This plant was cultivated in England in 1724, and is 
times seen in collections. The flowers are erally white, and of small 
| Mire. Barber's apecimens seem to have been flame ur, the upper ] 
Says the leaves are “hairy on both sides,” a characteragreeing 
lium (Sm. Ic. pict. 1. t. 13); stem succulent, the 
‘nodes; leaves on longish petioles, sub-bipinnati- 
id; stipules minute, cordate ; flowering 
