974 JOVRNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 

 Herbs erect with Opposite Stipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals Ununited. 



aeranium Taberana, 

 Geraniacb^. 

 F. B. I. i. 481. 

 Kaehmir. 



medium size, slender, hairy and glandular, root 

 tuberous, perennial ; leaves l|-3 ins. diam,, sometimes 

 alternate, round kidney-shaped, divided into 5-7 parts, 

 •segments very spreading, much divided, redical leaves 

 long-stalked, stipules variable ; flowers 1 in. diam. in 

 nearly umbelled clusters of 2 surrounded vrith shortly 

 stalked leaves, main flower stalk very hairy and 

 glandular, bracts leafy, much divided, sepals 5, small, 

 blunt with a fine abrupt point, petals 5, large, round- 

 ed with a notch, stamens 5, filaments slender ; capsule 

 l\-\^ ins. long, erect, hairy, styles very short, the 

 beaks do not separate as in other species. 



Geranium 

 Bobertianum, 

 Serb Eobert, 

 Geraniace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 432. 

 Himalaya, 6-8,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Narkanda 



(Collett). 

 Murree (Douie). 



medium size, annual or biennial, softly hairy, 

 usually glandular and strongly scented, often red, 

 stem 1-2 ft. high, succulent ; leaves 1-3 ins. broad, 

 triangular oblong, cut to the base into 3-5 pinnately 

 lobed segments, central segment longest, lobes short- 

 pointed, stalk long, stipules ovate. \ in, long ; 

 flowers ^ in. diam., red pink streaked with white in 

 two flowered clusters on long stalks, sepals 5, broad, 

 long-pointed, petals 5, narrow, smoothly stalked, twice 

 as long as the sepals, not notched, stamens 5 ; capsule 

 f-1 in. long, beaks separating upwards and attached 

 above by silky hairs. 



Erodium ciconinm, 



Geraniace^. 



F. B. I. i. 434. 



N.-W. Frontier Province. 



Kohat. 



small, annual, velvety and sticky, branches stout, 

 swollen at the joints ; leaves ovate, cut into two or 

 three segments, segments divided into small toothed 

 lobes, stipules ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, thin, 

 dry ; flowers small, purple on long two-to many 

 flowered stalks, bracts thin, dry, finely hairy with an 

 abrupt point, sepals 5, ovate thin with 3 glandular 

 hairy nerves, ending in a long bristle-like point, petals 

 5, alternating with glands, broad at the tip, stamens 

 5, alternating with 5 staminodes, in other characters 

 like Geranium pratense except the beaks being pitted 

 at the top and the styles silky on the inner surface. 



