290 GERANIACEZ (Harv.) [ Pelargonium. 
103. P. altheoides (L’Her. Ger. t. 10); perennial, many-stemmed ; 
stems herbaceous, slender, diffuse, terete, with very long internodes, 
canescent and downy ; leaves often opposite, on very long petioles, ob- 
tusely cordate, somewhat 5—7-lobed, the lobes rounded, crenato-dentate, 
silky above, densely albo-tomentose and veiny underneath ; stipules mem- 
branous, deltoid ; peduncles filiform, 6-8-flowered, with lanceolate bracts 
and very short pedicels; calyx densely villoso-tomentose, the tube twice 
as long as the segments; flowers minute. DC.1.c. 655. E. & Z./ 560. 
P. fragrans, E, Mey.! non Willd. Drege, 7452, 7470. Zey.! 2063. 
Has. Kamiesberg, Namaqualand, £. & Z.! Uienvalei, Drege! also Wildchutz- 
berg, Stormberg, and Witberg, Caffraria, Drege. (Herb., T.C.D., Benth., Sond.) 
Apparently a distinct species, with soft, albo-tomentose leaves, like those of an 
Abutilon or Althea, All parts white-hairy, Flowers like those of P. grossularioides. 
Zeyher’s 2063, (from Zwarteberg) is less tomentose than usual, but is nearer this 
oe ten 3 anything else. The specimen in Herb. Banks, a garden one, is also 
men . 
104. P. chamedryfolium (Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 523); annual or biennial, 
many-stemmed, procumbent; stems angular, hairy ; leaves on long, 
hairy petioles, oblong, 3-lobed at base or pinnatifid, obtuse, pubescent or 
hairy, denticulate ; stipules membranous, broadly subulate ; peduncles 
filiform, hairy, 4-8-flowered ; pedicels longer than the hispid calyx-tube, 
which is shorter than the oblong-acute sepals ; flowers small. DC. Prod. 
1.p.654. Erodium maritimum, E. & Z.! No. 452, non aliorum. 
Has. Sandy and dry hills, about Wynberg, &., W.H.H. Simon’s Bay. C. Wright! 
(Herb. Jacq., T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
_ More robust than P. grossularioides, with more oblong leaves, larger flowers, espe- 
cially a longer calyx, with broadly oblong sepals. Internodes distant. The leaves 
vary from exactly elliptic-oblong to 3-lobed, or even pinnatifid, on different parts of 
the same plant. The minute petals are a fine purple. E. & Z.! have confounded 
this plant with Frodium maritimum. 
105. P. parvulum (DC. Prod. 1. p. 660) ; annual or biennial, herba- 
ceous, densely pubescent ; stems angular; leaves on long petioles, oblong- 
cordate, obtuse, crenate, simple or inciso-pinnatifid, with cut lobes ; stipules 
deltoid-acuminate; peduncles filiform, 4—6-flowered ; flowers minute, 
_ pedicellate with a very short calyx-tube and elliptic-oblong, albo-marginate 
sepals, equalling the petals. P. nanum, L’Her. in Hb, Banks! P. hu- 
mifusum, Willd.! P. procumbens, E. Mey.! Herb. Drege, non DC.; also — 
Drege, 7469. + 
Has, Cape, Masson! Silverfontein, Namaqualand, and at Drakensteen, Drege! 
_ Herb, Willd., Banks., Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 3 
Smaller than P. chamvedryfolium, with more oblong leaves than P. grossularivides, 
which it more particularly differs in the sepals. chin De Candolle remarks, 
ect of Hrodium maritimwm, but that the leaves are more deeply cut. Possibly 
only a starved state of P. chamedryfolium ? 
(L’Her.! in Herb. Banks); annual or biennial, 
anescent ; stems angular, diffuse; leaves on long 
rtite, the segments linear, entire or cut, 
peduncles shorter than the petiole, 
ite, with a very short or obsolete 
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white and silky sepals, a8 long 
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