: or quite herbaceous, slender, diffuse, variously pubescent ; branches" 
286 GERANIACER (Harv.) —[Pelurgonium 
94. P. antidysentericum (E. & Z. 542); root very large and turnip- 
shaped ; stems suffruticose (annually renewed 1), slender, multangular — 
and striate, spreading, much-branched ; branches, filiform; leaves on * 
slender petioles, reniform, deeply 3-5-lobed, or p the segments in- | 
cised or 3-lobed and toothed, softly pubescent; stiprles small, subulate, — 
hardening into recurved thorns ; peduncles short, spreading, 2-3 -flowered; nee 
pedicels twice as long as the calyx-tube, which is striate, seabrid, and 
about equalling the linear, acute segments. Drege, No. 7477! 
Has, Kamiesberge, Namaqualand, £. ¢ Z./ Silverfontein, Drege/ (Herb. Sond.) ee 
Roots, when full grown, the size of a man’s head. Stems numerous, 2 feet long aa 
and more, weak and straggling ; leaves and flowers small. ‘‘This plant is called : 
t namie by the aborigines, who boil the roots in milk and make use of them in dysen- 
tery.” Pappe. I have not seen the flowers, which are said to be purplish ; the style 
and fertile stamens longer than the calyx-segments. Does it belong to this section? 
The foliage and ramification, but not the stipules, resembles those of P. patulum. 
95. P. tetragonum (L’Her. Ger. t. 22); stem succulent, branches sub- 
dichotomous, obtusely 4~—3-angled, distinctly jointed, smooth ; leaves — 
few, on long, pilose petioles, reniform-cordate, carnose, erenato-lobulate, == 
sparsely villous ; stipules cordate, membranous, small, peduncles short, = 
spreading, two-flowered, with 4 lanceolate bracts ; flowers nearly sessile, 
the calyx-tube very long, sparsely setulose, the segments linear-lanceo- - 
late, white-edged, and ciliate, acute, the upper broader. DC. Prod. 1. 
p. 958. Pl. Grass. t. 96. Bot. Mag. t. 136. Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 132. Sw. 
Ger.t.99. E.§ Z.! 544. Chorisma flavescens, E. § Z. 545- 6 
Has. Introduced to land, 1 by F. Masson. Zou hoogde, near the 
Zwartkops River, Uit., ea Zi iss Gedling, near the Gout River. (Herb. fs 
T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). Leia aed 
A remarkable species, readily known by its naked, square, succulent, often leafless 
stems. The few leaves are 1-11 inch across. The flowers are of large size and gene- 
rally 4-petalled, the two pper petals purplish and streaked, obovate, with long claws ; 
the 2-3 lower not half as long, white and spathulate. J ¥ 
Sec. 7. MYRRHIDIUM. Stems slender, diffuse, biennial or suffru-— 
ticose, rarely annual. Stipules foliaceous or membranous, withering. — 
Leaves pinnatifid or pinnati-partite, Petals 4, rarely 5, the two upper- 
most obovate or cuneate, much larger than the lower, which are linear. 
a se membranous, strongly ribbed and mucronate, or taper-pointed. (Sp. 
10.) 
96. P. myrrhifolium (Ait. Kew. 1. vol. 2. p. 421); suffruticose at base 
, more or less deeply pinnatifid or bi-~rnnatt- 
the segments glabrous or pubescent, or villous, linear or cuneate, 
somewhat channelled, deeply cut or again pinnatifid ; stipules 
ily ovate, acuminate ; peduncles 2~6-flowered ; calyx-tube setulose, 
aceolate, taper-pointed, strongly ribbed ; upper petals much 
eader than the lower. 
sum ; suffrutioose, glabrescent ; leaves bi-pinnatifid, 
_ angular ; leaves ovate 
