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Pelargonium. | GERANIACEE (Harv.) 281 
with rigid spines, formed of hardened stipules. The habit is nearly that of a Sar- 
cocaulon. 
** Stem incrassated, armed with hardened, spine-like petioles. Stipules adnate. 
(Sp. 76.) 
76, P. crassipes (Harv.); stem short, carnose, thickly covered with 
the persistent, thickened and hardened bases of old petioles; leaves on 
very thick, tapering petioles, pinnati-partite, pubescent,. ... . ; stipules 
minute, adnate, subulate ; peduncles elongate, branched or panicled, 
with many-flowered umbels and lanceolate bracts; flowers sub-sessile, 
the calyx-tube very long, glandular, 4-6-times longer than the oblong, 
obtuse, scabrous segments; petals dark purple, small. 
Has. Collected by Masson! (Herb. Banks.) 
Leaves not perfect in the only specimen seen, decompound, once or twice pinnate. 
The hardened petioles, 1-2 inches long, spreading in all directions, are very charac- 
teristic. 
*** Stem simple, succulent, or branched and suffruticose. Stipules adnate to the 
petioles, deltoid or subulate, conspic (Sp. 77-81.) 
77. P. pulchellum (Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 524); stem short and succu- 
lent ; leaves on short, hairy petioles, oblong, silky, inciso-pinnatifid, the 
lobes oblong, acute ; stipules broadly ear-shaped, acute, adnate, rigid, veiny, 
silky; scapes branched, pilose, with many-flowered umbels and lanceo- 
late, silky bracts; outer flowers pedicellate, inner sub-sessile, the calyx- 
tube many times longer than the lanceolate, hairy sepals. DC. Prod. 1. 
p. 665. Sw. Ger. t. 31. P. pictum, Andr. Rep. t. 168% DC. Prod. l. c. 
Has. Cultivated in Europe, 1695. Kaus Mountain, Namaqualand, Drege / 
(Herb. Benth., Jacq.) 
Stem scarcely branched, sometimes obsolete. Stipules remarkably broad and stiff, 
like those of P. appendiculatum. The petals are white, each with a large, deep 
spot. Seemingly a rare species. 
78. P. hirtum (Jacq.! Ic. Rar. t. 536); stem short, fleshy, villous, 
armed with the persistent bases of old leaves; leaves on villous petioles, 
bi-tri-pinnate, the segments narrow-linear, partite, densely and softly 
hairy ; stipules narrow-subulate, adnate; peduncles patently “hairy, 
scape-like, but often leaf-bearing in the middle, branched ; umbels 3— 
8-flowered, with villous bracts; calyx tube villoso-hispid, the segments 
oblong, white-edged, obtuse. DC. Prod. 1. p.661. Cav. Diss. t. 117. 
f.2. Sw. Ger. t. 113. EB. d Z.! 540, also 538 and 539. P. tenuifolium, 
LD Her. t.12. DC.t.¢. . | 
Has, Mountain sides, in the western districts. Lion’s Mountain ; and at Sal- © a 
danha Bay, and Brackfontein, #. & Z./ Near Groenekloof and at the Paarl, Drege/\ Mduwhu0 
(Herb. Banks., T.C.D.. Hook., Sond.) oe 
Stem short, slightly branched, erect or decumbent. Leaves very fincly divided, Ut 
like those of a carrot. Flowers rather small, rosy purple, the two upper petals fee 
darker and spotted. The whole ong is very . In the Stockholm Herb. is a 
specimen of this plant from Thunberg, marked “ P. abrotanifolium.” 
79. P. dissectum (E. & Z.! 536); stem short, suffruticose, sub-simple; 
leaves on very long, patently hairy petioles, tripartite, the segments fasti- 
giate, multifid, sparsely pilose, their divisions narrow-linear, patent, 
acute and hair-tipped ; stipules minute, deltoid, adnate, membra 
