Pelargonium. | GERANIACEZ (Harv.) 279 
flowered, with oblong, obtuse, small bracts; pedicels downy or glabres- 
cent; longer than the calyx-tube, calyx-segments lincar-oblong, obtuse. 
DC. Prod. 1. p. 655. Sw. Ger. t. 354. P. paniculatum, Jacg. Schoenb. 
t.137. P. lacum, Sw. Ger. t. 196, non E.d Z. Drege, 74791 P.da- 
syphyllum, EH. Mey.! Jenkinsonia dichotoma, E. & Z.! 543. 
Has. North-west districts. Between Kaussie and Silverfontein, Dreye! Bitter- 
fontein, Zeyher! Louisfontein, Clanw., #. & Z./ (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A very straggling plant with panicled inflorescence and more fleshy, narrower and 
more divided foliage than in others of this section. P. dasyphyllum, E. Mey./ from 
pry marae looks like a starved state, with simpler leaves and short cuneate and 
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69. P. ceratophyllum (L’ Her. Ger. t. 13); “stem shrubby, carnose, 
branched ; leaves fleshy, pinnati-partite, the lobes linear, semi-terete, 
sub-canaliculate, entire or 3-toothed ; umbels many-flowered.” DC. 
Prod. i. p. 653. Bot. Mag. t. 315. 
Has. South Africa. (Unknown to me.) 
Probably a mere var. of P. crithmifolium, with simpler leaves. 
70. P. dasycaulon (Bot. Mag. t. 2029); “stem shrubby, carnose, 
tuberculated ; leaves fleshy, pinnati-partite, the lobes inciso-pinnatifid, 
sub-trifid; umbels about 3-flowered. DC. l. cp. 655. 
To j by th in Bot. Mag. this and the preceding may be probably re- 
ferred F. Golneey ican. le ee 
71. P. ferulaceum (Willd. Sp. 3. p. 687); stem succulent, the bran- 
ches swollen at the nodes ; leaves on longish petioles, oblong, deeply 
pinnatifid or pinnati-partite, thickish, pubescent on both sides, the seg- 
ments flat, cuneate, sharply incised or pinnatifid ; stipules small, ovate- 
acuminate; flowering branches sub-dichotomons, the peduncles short, 
downy and the umbels 4—6-flowered, with short ovate bracts; pedicels 
downy, about as long as the swollen tube, cal.-segments Jinear-oblong, 
white-margined, downy, sub-acute. DC. Prod. 1. p. 654. Burm. Afr, t. 
36. f.1. Cav. Diss. t. 110, f.2. EH. &Z.! 528. Drege, 7481; also P. 
carnosum, 8. E. Mey.! P. Burmannianum, LE. & Z.! 529. Zey- 179. 
Var. 8. polycephalum ; downy or glabrescent, with broader and less 
- deeply cut eaf-lobes, broader and more obtuse and paler bracts and 
stipules, and denser, sub-capitate umbels. P. polycephalum, E. Mey.! 
in Herb. Drege. eee nae 
Has. In sandy soil, north-west districts. Oliphant’s River, Clanw., and Zwart- 
land, Stell.; Z. d Z./ Silverfontein, Drege/ both varieties, (Herb. T.C.D., Benth., 
Sond. 
voy like P. carnosum but more hairy and with much shorter and denser flowers; 
more paniculate branching ; a softer and closer pubescence, and differently-shaped 
calyx-segments, &c. It is also a western, not eastern species. 
- 92, P. alternans (Wendl. H. Herrenh. 1. p. 14. t.9); stem succulent, 
much branched, the branches short and knobby ; leaves petiolate, pin- 
nati-partite, pilose, the segments petiolate, cuneate, trifid or 3~4-parted and. 
toothed ; stipules minute, ovate; peduncles short, hispid, with 3-4-_ eae 
flowered umbels and oblong, hairy bracts ; pedicels very short or obsol: 
the pubescent calyx-tube as long as or longer than the linear, obt 
