14 CONSPECTUS TARULARUM. 
This may be called the Desert Broom. Its long and slender, dis- 
tantly branched, rush-like stems, and the minute leaflets on swollen and 
elongate petioles are quite peculiar; while the large, yellow blossoms 
are very ornamental. The fleshy scales, surrounding the very hairy 
ovary, resemble little hands. 
Fig. 1, flowering twig ; 2, back view of a flower ; natural size, Fig. 3, a petal; 4, 
stamen ; 5, hypogynous scales; 6, ovary; 7, section of the carpels (the hairs removed) ; 
8, an ovule; variously magnified. 
121. PELARGONIUM BOWKERI, Harv. ( Geraniacee.) 
P. Bowkeri: radice nodoso-tuberoso, caule brevi carnoso, foliis sub- 
radicalibus petiolatis bi-tri-pinnati-partitis, pinnis in rachide valde 
elongato suboppositis alternisve numerosis, pinnulis lineari-filiformibus 
integerrimis tenuiter adpressé pubescentibus; stipulis lanceolatis acu- 
minatis, scapo foliis longiori patentim puberulo, umbella multiflora, 
pedicellis bracteas oblongas villosas parum superantibus, petalis pro- 
funde bilobis, lobis fimbriato-multifidis.—Zurv. iin Ll. Cap. Suppl., 
vol. ii., p. 592. 
Has.—Trans- Kei country, rare, H. Bowker. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—Root formed of one, two, or several turnip-shaped tubercles, 
one above the other. Stem 1-2 inches long, simple, leafy, and flori- 
ferous at the summit, partly subterranean. Leaves 4_8 inches long on 
petioles 3-5 inches long, lanceolate-linear in outline, bi-tri-pinnatipar- 
tite; pinnz in several pairs, or alternate, multifid; the pinnules not 4 
line wide, all parts thinly and appressedly pubescent, with whitish 
hairs. Pedune. 12-15 inches high, many fl. Bracts and calyx villous. — 
Upper petals, greenish-yellow, lower purple at base, greenish-yellow 
-above, all bipartite and multifid, the shreds very narrow-linear. 
A very handsome Pelargonium, with the flowers of P. schizopetalun, 
Amatymbicum and Caffrum, but differing from all these remarkably in 
foliage. I name it in compliment to its discoverer, to whom I am 
indebted for many interesting plants from the Trans-Kei territory. 
Fig. 1, a peduncle in flower ; 2, a leaf (the upper part cut off) ; 3, tuberous root and 
stem : all of the natural size, 
tn in 
122. MONTINIA ACRIS, Linn. f. ( Onagrariea.) 
M. acris, Linn. f. Suppl., 427; Thunb., Fl. Cap., 142; DC. Prod., 
8,35; FE. % Z.!/ 1757; Hare. & Sond., Fi. Cap. 2, p. 308; i. cary- 
ophyllacea, Thunh., Act. Lund. 1, 108; Sm. Spicil., t.15: Burm. Afr., 
#. 90, f. 1-2; M. frutescens, Gaertn. 
