280 GERANIACE (Harv.) [ Pelargonium. | 
segments. DC. Prod. 1.p.655, Sw. Ger. t. 286. Otidia microphylla, 
E. & Z.! 531, and O. corallina, E. § Z.! 530. 
Has. Cultivated in England, 1791. Near Heerelogement and Kraus Valley, 
Clanw., H.d4Z./ (Herb. Benth., Sond.) 
This species is remarkable for its. clumsy, many-knobbed stem, and small, white- 
hairy leaves. Though £. ¢ Z.’s specimens are very imperfect, I have no hesitation 
in referring their O. microphylla, at least to this place ; and O. corallina was founded 
on — defective scraps of a similar plant, Flowers small, white, with narrow 
petals, 
Sec. 5. LIGULARIA. oot branching. Stem either succulent or 
suffruticose and slender. Leaves rarely entire, mostly incised, or decom- 
pound, pinnati-partite. Pubescence hairy, very rarely wanting. Stipules 
(except in P, pulchellum) small or obsolete. Petals sub-unequal, narrow 
spathulate, the two upper tapering at base or clawed. Fertile stamens 7. 
(Sp. 73-92.) 
(Bp Stem short, thick, undivided, nodose, armed with persistent spine-like (free ) stipules. 
Pp: 73-75-) 
73. P. stipulaceum (Willd.! Sp, 3. p.655) ; root-stock caulescent, 
moniliform, tuberous, armed with persistent stipules ; leaves chiefly 
from the crown, on long filiform petioles, oblong, cordate or hastate at 
base, somewhat 3-lobed, inciso-dentate, ciliate, sparsely hispid ; stipules 
subulate, free ; scapes often branched, with few-flowered umbels and 
lanceolate bracts ; calyx-tube sub-sessile, 4-5-times as long as the lan- 
ceolate, villous segments; petals broadly spathulate or obovate. DC. 
Prod. t.p.651. Cav. Diss.t.122.f. 3. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 519. P. pal- 
lens, Andr. Ger. cumTc. Sw. Ger. t. 148. 
Has. Near Hantam, Thunberg. Leliefontein, Namaqualand, 4-5000 f. Drege / 
(Herb. Willd., T.C.D., Hook., Sond). 
Root-stock 3-4 inches long, half above ground ; the upper portion succulent, with 
a hard, brown, rough bark, armed with hardened stipules and bases of petioles. Pe- 
tioles 3-4 inches long ; leaves 14 inches, thin and membranous, glabrescent. Flower- 
stalks 8-12 inches high ; umbels 2—3-flowered ; calyx-tube nearly 2 inches long. 
Petals cream-coloured. 
74 P.articulatum (Willd. Sp. 3. p.655); “stem very short, armed 
___-with persistent stipules; leaves reniform, 5-lobed, villous, the lobes 
_ trifid; umbel simple, few-flowered. Cav. Diss. 4. p. 252. t. 122. f. 1. 
— DC Prod. 1. p.651. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 520. 
_ Has. Near Hantam, in the Roggeveld, Thunberg. 
15. P. oh geal stem fleshy, moniliform or closely knobby, 
armed with persistent spine-like stipules, slightly branched ; 
m the crown, on slender, strigose and glandular petioles, pin- 
de with very narrow, strigose, deeply incised or parted segments; 
d, subulate, free ; peduncles densely glandular, simple ; 
oo bux flowered, with short subulate bracts; flowers sub-sessile, 
_ the glandular calyx-tube 4-5 times longer than the lanceolate, albo- 
