282 GERANIACEZ (Harv.) [ Pelargonium. 
peduncles seape-like, longer than the leaves, retrorsely strigose near the 
| _ summit, villous below ; umbels few-flowered, with small bracts ; calyx- 
tube sub-sessile, retrorsely strigose and thinly pilose, 3-4 times as long 
ee as the lanceolate, acuminate segments; petals narrow, on long claws, 
the two upper longer, emarginate. JP. setosum, E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege, 
non Sw. 
Has. Near Philipstown and Fort Beaufort, Kat River, Z.&Z./ Kaffirland, Drege! 
also the Nieuweveldsberg, Beaufort, and between Blauberg and Tigerberg. Cape. 
Albany, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
Stem decumbent at base, the leafy portion erect, 2-3 inches long. Leaves crowded; 
the petiole 4-5 inches long, the multifid lamina 1 inch across, The habit is like 
that of Monsonia speciosa in miniature. Petals white. The 7 fertile stamens are 
sub-equal, and rather shorter than the calyx segments. 
80. P. multifidum (Harv.); shrubby, slender (prostrate?), the branches 
rusty, angular, pubescent; leaves petiolate, sub-rotund in outline, digi 
tately 3-7-parted, the segments cuneate, fastigiate, deeply inciso-lobulate, 
both surfaces appressedly hairy; stipules broadly subulate, adnate; pe- 
duncles filiform, persistent, few-flowered, with deciduous bracts; calyx- 
tube sub-sessile, pubescent, 4—5-times as long as the oblong, obtuse 
segments; petals spathulate, not much exceeding the calyx. Drege, 
9460. Zeyher! 2054. 
Has. Between the Zwarteberg and River Zonderende, Zeyher! (Herb. Sond.) 
A rigid, though slender, branching suffrutex, probably growing in dry ground. 
Leaves scarcely more than } inch in diameter, densely clothed with rigid, white hairs. 
Flowers in bad preservation. The petals seem to have been dull yellowish. 
81. P. sericeum (E. Mey.!); whole plant silky ; stem short, dichoto- 
mous, woody, imbricated with persistent leaf-bases ; leaves densely seri- 
ceous, canescent, cuneate, deeply trifid, the lateral segments linear, ob- 
tuse, the medial cuneate and 3-lobed ; stipules adnate, subulate, spread- 
ing ; peduncles branched, the partial 1-3-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 
eee connate; sub-sessile, the tube several times longer than the oblong, 
saree blunt sepals; petals obovate. 
Pee Voge ate Mountain, near Goedman’s-kraal, 3-4000 f. Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., 
ee _ Hook.,Sond. 
i : A densely ain small, but stoutly woody plant, with closely imbricated, sub- 
ee sessile, shining and silky leaves. Flower-stalks often very short, but branched ; the 
involucres frequently one-flowered. Calyx-tube 1} inches long. Flowers white. 
#8 Stem slender, branching, suffruticose. Stipules adnate, very minute or obsolete. 
ee Ce Ses) 
82. P. abrotanifolium (Jaeq. Schoenb. t. 136.); shrubby, slender, 
branched, velvetty-canescent ; leaves pulverulent, flabelliform, tri- 
lateral segments deeply 2-3-lobed, the terminal multifid, with 
tone A en w-flo ak bracts minute, ovate ; ithe ie os 
eee Re wien dicels, or the hairy segments ; upper petals broader 
3 a Ge use lower. DC. P rod. 1. p. 661. Cav. Diss. t. 117.f.1- 
Rhinoster- 
