Pelargonium.| GERANIACEX (Harv.) 299 
»peduncles long, many-flowered; flowers sub-sessile, the calyx tube 
glabrous or thinly pubescent, 4—5 times longer than the lanceolate seg- 
ments ; petals narrow-cuneate or spathulate. DC. Prod.1.p.659. E. 
&Z,! 585. Cav. Diss. t. 98. f. 2., not good. Cic. densiflorum, E. & Z.! 
584. BP. lateritium, Willd. ! : 
Var. 6. stenopetalum ; petals very narrow linear. P. stenopetalum, 
Ehr. DG. 1.0.9. O65 3 
Has. Cult. in England, 1710. Among shrubs and on hill sides in the Western 
Districts. Tulbaghsberg, near the Winterhoek and in the Langekloof, FE. & Z. / 
Simon’s ee Hi (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A b, with juicy, green stems and thick leaves, usually, but not invari- 
ably, marked with a dark semi-circle, whence its name ‘“‘ horse-shoe Geranium.” The 
flowers vary from scarlet and crimson through all shades of red to pure white. P. 
idum and P, monstrum, old garden plants in England, appear to be varieties of 
this species ; the first approaching P. inquinans. 
134. P. inquinans (Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 424) ; shrubby, the younger 
branches suceulent, velvetty; leaves on long petioles, orbicular-reni- 
form, velvetty and somewhat viscoso-pubescent, crenate, sub-undivided or 
obsoletely multi-lobulate ; stipules broadly cordate ; peduncles long, 
many-flowered ; pedicels very short, the densely glandular and viscid 
calyx tube 3-4 times longer than the lanceolate segments ; petals broadly 
obovate. DC. Prod: 1. p. 659. Dill. Elth. fig. 151. Cav. Diss, t. 106. 
f. 2. £.§Z.! 581, 583, 586. Zeyher ! 2073, 2074. P.cerinum, Sw. 
t.176. H.d& Z.! 582. Drege, 7453, 7454- 
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Has. Among shrubs and on hill sides. Eastern Districts, Uitenhage, Albany §\, \ oe 
and Caffirland. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
This is the parent of most of the “scarlet Geraniums” of English gardens, and “ 
has been cultivated since 1714. The flowers vary from intense scarlet to rose-colour 
and white. It is much softer and more viscid than P. zonale, without horse-shoe 
mark, and with broader and shorter petals. 
Sect, 14. CORTUSINA. Stem candiciform, short, thick and fleshy ; 
branches (if any) slender and half herbaceous. Leaves on long petioles, 
reniform or cordate, crenate or lobulate, velvetty or pubescent. Petals 
sub-equal, obovate, the two upper broader. Stamens 6-7. (Sp. 135- 
14d.) bee 
135. P. echinatum (Curt. Bot. Mag. 3 309) : stem fleshy, armed with — 
persistent, spine-like stipules ; leaves on long petioles, cordate-ovate, ob- 
tuse, somewhat 3-5-7-lobed, the lobes rounded, crenulate or bi-crenu- 
late, pubescent above, albo-tomentose and nerved:below ; stipules sub- 
ulate, rigid ; peduncles elongate, branched,’ tial 6-8-flowered ; 
pedicels very short, the downy calyx-tube 5-6 times as long as the 
villous sepals ; petals emarginate. DC. Prod. 1. p.665. Sw. Ger. t. 54. 
P. hamatum, Jacq. Schoenb, t. 138, Andr. Rep. t. 158? Zey. ! 2071. 
Has. Cult. 1795. North-Western Districts. Namaqualand, Z / Onthe | 
neataere: 3s0eh, Kausberg, 4000f. and at Modderfontein, Dre / (Herb. T.OD. ‘ 
hs has the habit it of P. reniforme and the leaves of P. odorati , 
