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f 



f 



Pelargoydum.'] /- xxvii. geraniac£.e. 299 



f almost creeping, or sliort and thick. Leafy stems decumbent or erect, some- 

 times short, but usually attaining 1 ft. or more, generally pubescent or hirsute 

 with spreading hairs. Leaves reniform-cordate, or very rarely broadly ovate- 

 cordate, crcnate, or veiy shortly lobed, very obtuse, rarely 2 in. diameter, and 

 usually much smaller, softly pubescent or hirsute. Stipules broad. Peduuclcs 

 usually longer than the leaves, but not so long as in P, Bodne^jaiuim,, and 

 sometimes very short. Flowers small, in an umbclj sometimes very dense, 

 almost reduced to a head, sometimes loose with pedicels of \ in. or more. 

 Sepals acute, 2^to 3 lines long, usually very hairy, the deeiirrent tube rarely so 



\ long, and sometimes very short. Petals from a little longer than the sepals 



to about half as long again. Capsule-lobes pubescent, the beak from \io \ 

 m. longj the awns of the lobes bearded inside as in Erodium. Seeds smooth. 

 Sweet, Geran. t. 68 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm, i. 57 ; F. MueU. PI. Vict. i. 170 ; 

 ■P. ghmeratum, Jacq. ; DC. Prod, i. 659; P. inodornm^ViiM. -, DC. 1. c. ; 

 Sweet, Geran. t, 56 ; P. littorale, Hueg. Bot. Arch. t. 5 ; P.crmitum, Nees, 

 in PL Prciss. i. 1G3; P . stenantJium , Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1858, i. 149; 



^ P. Brummondi, Turcz. 1. c. 431 (a robust form with large flowers). 



N. S. "^Vales. Port Jaclcson, K Brown, Sieier, n. 252; northward to Clarence 



nvcr, BecMer^ and New England, and inland io the Blue ^lountains and Laclilan river, J. 



' <^t^nningham and others. 



Victoria, frequent on sandy stores, desert land, river banls, mouutains, etc., F, 

 Mueller, 



Tasmania, R, Brown. Abundant in many parts of the colony, especially near the 

 sea, J. B. Hooker. 



S. Australia. Chiefly near the sea, F. Mueller and others. 



t vV. Australia. King George's Sound, R, Brown; and thence to Swan River, Brum- 



^ond^ Ut ColL, ColLh.n. ]9i, 102, 103, etc.; Preiss, n, 1905, 1906; Old/ield, ani 

 ■others. ■ 



' "^^- erodioides ; small and slender, pubescent, the leaves not above J in. diamcfcr, and 



now-ers small, the sepals varying froni 1 to 2 lines. F, erodioides, Hoolc. Journ. Bot. 

 ^ 252; P. acugnaticum, Thou.; Hook. f. IL Tasm. i. 58. — Tasmania, and occasionally in 



' Victoria, and especially in N. S. '\Vales, where is also a more robust form, but with flowers 



at least as small. This is the P. clandestinum, L'Her. ; Hook. f. FJ. N. Zeal. i. 41, and is the 

 "lost commou form in New Zealand. P. acugnaticum.. Thou., from Tristan d'Acunha, 

 Js also a form of the same species scarcely to be distinguished from the var. erodioides, and 

 all these collectively cannot be separated from the S. African var, anceps of P. gross id arioides, 

 ^it., or P. anceps. Ait. Ent although the Australian P. australe and S. African F. grossa- 

 larioides thus coincide in this particular form, the more common varieties are in each case 

 endemic, the ordinary P. australe described above never occurring in S. Africa, where the 

 niost common form is one with deeply-cut leaves, which is never to be met with in Australia, 

 ^t^e Harv. and Sond. M. Gap. i. 289. 



. 2. P, Rodueyanum, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Hxped. ii. 144. A peron- 

 ^1^1, forming a thick rootstock and a very short erect stem, hirsute with 

 spreading hairs. Leaves chiefly radical, petiolate, from broadly orbicular-cor- 

 date to ovate, obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, crenulate and sometimes shortly lobcd, gla- 

 brous or minutely hoary -tonientose. Teduucles erect, 4 to 8 in. long, bearing 

 an umbel of 4 to S showy reddisli-purple flowers. Sepals about 3 lines long, 

 J^tlier obtuse; the adnate calyx-tube usually longer, 1)ut sometimes rather 

 shorter than the sepals. Petals*' fully twice as long as the calyx, the two upper 

 ones larger than the others. Fniit not seen.— F. Muell. Pi- Vict. i. 171, t. 

 s^^PpL 11, 



