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Pelargonium.| _—- GERANIACE (Harv.) 295 
4-5-flowered ; flowers on long pedicels, the calyx-tube about as long as 
the lanceolate segments, which are half as long as the petals. DC. Prod. 1. 
p. 668. P. cortusefolium, Jacg.! Ic. Rar. t. 539. G. tabulare, Cav. Diss. 
t. 100, f. 2. EB. & Z./ 602, 603, gh Drege, 7456. Zey. 191. P. fus- 
catum, Jacg.! Te. t. 540. DC. Prod. lee. 
Has. About Table Mountain and Hott. Holl., also on Tulbagh Mt., Z.& Z./ 
W.H.H., &. (Herb. Jacq., T.C.D., Hook., Sond.}. 
_. A much-branched bush with glaucous stems and foliage, either wholly glabrous, 
_ or with a few scattered bristles, especially about the calyx. Flowering branches 
mostly panicled. Upper petals obovate, much longer than the lower. Nearly allied 
to P. grandi iflorum, but the flowers are much smaller and the calyx-tube na 
Jacquin’s P, fuscatwm, of which I have examined the original specimens, does not 
materially differ. é 
122. P. patulum (Jacq. Te, Rar. t. 54.1); suffruticose, flexuous, slender, 
glabrous and.glaucous ; leaves on long petioles, palmately 5- -7-nerved, 
3-5-lobed or parted, ‘the lobes coarsely toothed or cut; stipules cordate, 
acuminate, entire or toothed, ciliolate; peduncles slender, 2-3-flowered ; 
pedicels shorter than the slender, curved calyxe-tube, which is 2-3 times longer 
than the lanceolate sepals ; petals twice as long as the sepals, DC. Prod. 
1. p.668. Humorphia variegata, E. § Z.! 606, also 605, 607, 608. 
Var. a. latilobum; leaves with 3-5 broad, shallow, toothed lobes. 
Lum. marmorata, #. variegata and E. cataracte, E. & Z. / 
Var. B. tenuilobum ; leaves 3- -5-parted, with deeply incised and 
sharply toothed and cut segments. Hum. tenuiloba, EB. & Z.! 607. 
Has. Mountain sides, western districts, Hott. Holl., Tulbaghsberg._ Puspas 
Valley, Swell., and Gnadendahl, Z.4@Z./ (Herb. T.C.D., ’Hook., Sond.) 
~ Much shrubby, more slender, with smaller leaves and flowers than P. sanicu- _ 
leefolium ; and certainly distinct though the differences seem small. Our two varieties 
chiefly differ in the degree of incision of the leaf, which varies in different specimens. 
Sr a there are a few bristles on the calyx and nerves of the leaf. 
_ [Poubtful species of this sub-section ; describe from 
garden specimens ; very probably hybrids 4q : 
F; albiflorum (Spin. Cat. 1818. p. 30); DC. ye i p. 5 6p. 
P. Curtisianum (Balb. & Spin. Cat.); DC. Prod. 1. c. 
P. Colle (Spin. Cat. 1818. p. 31); DC. lc. 
oe. —— be «se = p. 30); DC. lc. 
by mle lg Aicoen, sadancce Flowers subsessile. (Sp. 123-125.) 
ta 123. P. alchemilloides (Willd. 3. p. 656); perennial, diffuse, many- 
3 ed, pubescent ; stems furrowed, leaves on very long ~ 
od eas, 7D ed, reniform, 5-7-lobed, the lobes rounded or cuneate, 
crenate or toothed ; stipules cordate-ovate, acute ; peduncles long, 
:  4-6-flowered ; flowers sub-sessile, the calyx-tube many times 
longer than the narrow-lanceolate, striate segments. DC. l. ¢, eer ie 
tr *, Cas: Dis. 2.98.7) 3. se 
Var. «. dentatum ; softly ——— or "villous ; the leaves ee] 
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