Pelargonium. | GERANIACE (Harv.) 289 
5-ribbed, the narrower sub-acute, one-ribbed ; petals obovate, sub-equal. 
DC. Prod. 1. p.660. Sw, Ger.t. 327. E.d& Z.1 559. P. phellandrium, 
E. Mey.! Zey. 183. 
Has. Cape District, at Tigerberg, &c., E. § Z.! Cape Flats, Dr. Pappe! Berg Buel 
Valley and Langevalley, Zeyher! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
A much-branched, diffuse annual, 1-2 feet high, with dense, roughish, glandular g 
pubescence. The upper leaves are simply pinnatifid or merely incised and much up 
smaller than the rest. The flowers are white, with red streaks on the outside, and 
the two upper petals, which are very broad, have a dark spot at the base and on the 
claw. Drege’s 7482, seems to be a dwarf state of this species, with larger calyces 
than usual. 
[Species of Myrrhidium unknown to me.] 
101. P. caucalifolium (Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 529) ; “stem herbaceous, 
biennial, hairy ; leaves bi-pinnatifid, the lobes linear, glabrescent ; pe- 
duncles one-flowered.” DC. Prod. 1. p. 658. Petals white or flesh- 
coloured, with red veins. 
Sec. 8. PERISTERA, Stems herbaceous, diffuse, slender, annual or 
perennial, Leaves lobed or pinnatifid. Stipules membranous. Flowers 
minute! Petals sub-equal, scarcely longer than the calyx-segments. 
Fertile stamens 5. (These resemble Gerania and Erodia in habit.) (Sp. 
102-108.) 
102. P. grossularioides (Ait. Hort. Kew. 1. vol, 2. p.42); herbaceous, 
glabrous, pubescent or villous, many-stemmed ; stems angular and fur. 
- rowed ; leaves on long petioles, roundish-cordate, crenate, more or less 
deeply 3~5-lobed or 3—5-parted, with cuneate, deeply cut lobes ; ; stipules 
deltoid, acuminate ; peduncles filiform, 3-8- flowered, with lanceolate 
bracts ; ; calyx-tube funnel or trumpet-shaped, short or long, sepals ovato- 
lanceolate, acuminate, nerved, nearly as long as the minute petals. P. 
grossularioides and P. anceps, DC. Le. 660. £.GZ! ee —— 
&. TID FG i aa A ee 
VaR. a. anceps; nearly plabrouss fies sl roundish ordat. = 0 
nate or with shallow lobes. Ger. anceps, Jacq. Coll: 4.4.23. f. 3. P. fel 
nummulariefolia, E. § Z.! Drege, 7466, 6895. ; Gf 
Var. 8. columbinum ; pilose or glabrescent ; leaves Pale partite, ) Sle a 
with deeply incised segments. P. columb. Jacq. "‘Schoenb. t. <3. DC" Re 
1. ¢. 654. poe eae P. micropetalum, E, Mey.! — : 
escent or sub-canescent ae ir 
er So, eee we bee DC. Lec 
Z! a aise, ris Ze. a Bebe ?P. clandestinum, LD Her. Hot 
f. Fl. Nov. Zeal. 1. p. 41. P. brevirostre, BE. Mey.! 
Var. 6, iocastum; whole plant sericeo-pilose ; the pedicels of the 
flowers and the calyx-tube much longer and more slender than usual ; 
flowers purplish or white, larger than in var, y. P. tocastum, E.& Zz. L 
P. mutabilis, E. Mey.! Drege, 7464, 7465. : 
fas. In moist throughout the Colony. Var. 8. in places, 
sides of Talbagh I, Worcester, E.¢Z.! (Herb, T.C.D., Hoek. Beay onthe ; 
__ A vary variable plant with minute, purple or white flowers. The above varietios 
to me to run, one into the other, and others —, be a with i 
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