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288 GERANIACEZ (Harv.) — [Pelargonium. 
Chiefly known from P. Myrrhifolium by its more angular and glabrous stems, and 
the more distant and narrow, nearly glabrous leaf-segments. The calyx-tube rarely 
| equals the sepals in length ; the petals are rosy purple, with dark streaks. The 
flowers are sOmetimes very numerous. I retain this species, chiefly because it seems — 
to be confined to the eastern districts, while P. myrrhifolium is quite a western plant. — 
Drege’s 7486, a. (Herb. Sond.) quite agrees with the ordinary plant; his 7486, }, 
(Herb. Hook.) has a calyx-tube thrice as long as the sepals. 
98. P. urbanum (E. & Z.! 546); stem herbaceous, weak and strag- 
gling, tomentose; leaves pinnatifid or bi-pinnatifid, pubescent or canes- 
cent on both surfaces, the lobes broadly linear or acute, crenate or 
bluntly lobulate ; stipules broadly ovato-cordate, obtuse or mucronulate, 
green, sub-persistent ; peduncles hairy, 3—5-flowered, with obtuse bracts; 
calyx-tube hispidulous, longer or shorter than the lanceolate, mucronate, ol 
ribbed and hispid sepals. Drege, 7485. Zey. 2089. 
Var. «. pinnatifidum ; leaves pinnatifid, segments broadly cuneate, 
toothed ; calyx-tube shorter than the sepals. 
Var. 9. bi-pinnatifidum ; leaves bi-pinnatifid, segments broadly 
_ linear, lobulate ; calyx tube donger than the sepals. P. anemonifolium, 
E. & Z.! 551, non Jacq. 
Has. On sand hills and in dry places among shrubs. Var a. Near Uitenhage, 
E.& Z.! Port Elizabeth, Zeyher/ Drege! Var. 8. Near Cape L’Aguilhas, £. & Z./ 
Cape Flats, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). ‘ 
Well distinguished from P. myrrhifolium by its roundish-cordate, obtuse stipules 
and softer pubescence. The two varieties differ in the degree of leaf-incision and 
length of calyx-tube; both very variable characters. P. anemonifolium, Jacq.! ac- 
cording to the original in Herb. Vind.! is a var. of P. myrrhifolium. 
99. P. candicans (Spreng. Syst. 3. p. 57); suffruticose, slender, dif- 
fusely branched ; branches pubescent and hispid ; leaves on long 
petioles, canescent and silky on both sides, ovate-oblong, cordate at base, 
more or less 3-lobed and crenulate, the basal lobes short, rounded, the 
middle lobe ovate, cuneate at base, sometimes lobulate; stipules ovate, 
acuminate ; peduncles 2-3-flowered, with downy bracts; calyx-tube 
setulous, shorter than the lanceolate, acuminate ribbed and setulous 
sepals ; upper petals not twice as long as the calyx. H. & Z./ 547- 
Zey.! 2061, 2062. Drege, 7484. 
_ Has. Between Swellendam and Kochman’skloof, Z. & Z./ Assagaiskloof, and be- 
tween the Zwarteberg and River Zonderende, C. Zeyher. Hills near the Karmelks 
River, Drege! (Herb. Sond., Hook., Benth.). 
___ Stems weak, it, the upper branches with very long internodes, 
i lamina, which is variously cut, sometimes 
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