284 GERANIACEE (Harv.) [ Pelargonium. 
the branches hairy; leaves on hairy petioles, elongate, pinnati-partite, 
the pinne very short, inciso-multifid or pinnatifid, scabrous and hairy, 
with linear lobules; stipules free, ovate, acuminate, membranous; pe- 
duncles alternately branched, the umbellules racemose, few-flowered, 
patent; bracts short, ovate ; calyx scabrous, its segments linear, obtuse, 
very rough ; petals narrow, with long claws. DC. Prod. 1. p.661. LH. 
& Z.1 537. Burm. Afr.t. 34.f.2. Zey.! 2068 & 187. 
Has. Heathy ground near Beaufort, #.¢ Z.! Cradock, and in Namaqualand, 
Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A small, bushy suffrutex, 1-2 feet high, hairy and rather viscous. Leaves very 
finely divided, 2~3 inches long and 3 inch wide. Old flower-stems often persistent, 
bearing several horizontally spreading peduncles. 
87. P. tripartitum (Sw. Ger. t. 115) ; stem suffruticose, straggling ; 
branches slender, brittle, pubescent; leaves on petioles longer than the 
lamina, deeply trifid or tri-partite, the segments densely pubescent, cuneate, 
inciso-trifid ; stipules small, ovate, acute, membranous, free ; peduncles 
spreading, pubescent; umbels 3-6-flowered, with ovate bracts; calyx- _ 
tube, scabrid, 4 times longer than the lanceolate, acute segments; petals 
narrow, the two upper longest. DC. Prod. 1. p. 661. P. tripartitum, 
and P. fragile, Willd. P. trifidum, Jacq. Schoenb. t. 134. #.& Z.! 535: 
Has. Cultivated, 1796. In the Karoo, between the Gauritz River and Langekloof, 
E. & Z.! Zuaureberg, Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A slender, half-shrubby, weak-growing plant, with flexuous branches and variously 
cut leaves. Petals cream-coloured, the two upper with a deep red medial stripe. 
Jacquin’s figure, above quoted, exactly represents Drege’s specimens. 
88. P. Artemisizefolium (DC. Prod. 1. p. 661.; fide E. & Z.); stem 
suffruticose, erect, sub-simple, glabrous; leaves on long petioles, 2- 
pinnately-partite, with nearly glabrous, linear-filiform, channelled, acute 
segments; stipules subulate, free; peduncles elongate, 2-3-flowered ; 
bracts numerous, subulate; calyx tube on a longish pedicel, swollen at 
base, 2—3 times longer than the lanceolate, cuspidate, sparsely setulose 
segments; upper petals not twice as long as the sepals, lower spathu- 
late. E.G Z./ 558. Zey.! 2066. : 
Has. South Africa, Dr. Grondale! Mountain sides near Zonderende River, at 
_ Knoblanch, Swellendam, £. dé Z.! (Herb. Sond., Hook.) gel 
_ Placed by £. & Z.! in “ Myrrhidium,” but readily known from any of that section 
___by the long pedicels to the calyx tube, the want of prominent ribs on the calyx seg- 
ments, the subulate stipules and the erect habit. The leaves are usually as above 
ee . described, but specimens sometimes occur with ovate, inciso-lobulate leaves ; showing 
tendency towards P. cardiophyllum. 
pea cardiophyllum (Harv.); stem short, sub-simple, or with inno- 
ions ; leaves on very long, nearly glabrous, channelled — rigid, 
4 erved, s renato-dentate (rarely 3-lobed and laciniate), palmately 3-5- 
_nerved, seaberulous or setulose on both sides ; stipules subulate, atte- 
| cole conan short, 2—3-flowered, with subulate bracts; pedi- 
2 loser pS goa aroma curved, hispidulous oe ae pear ty a 
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