300 XXVII. GEUANiiCEiE. {Pelargonium. 



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Victoria. Near the Murray river, Mitchell; Forest Creek and towards Mount 

 Alexander, ¥. Mueller; in the Grampians, Wilhelmi, 



S, Australia, Lynedoch Valloyj ^^//r ; near Skipton, Whan. 



"W. Australia. In the interior from Swan River, Bnmmond, Roe. la these spe- 

 cimens the leaves are more decidedly cordate, almost reniforrn. 



The species much resemhles in hahit and flowers, and in the shape of the foliage P, 

 reniformey Curt., from South Africa, but wants the dense whitish velvety tomcntum of the 

 under side of the leaves of that species. F. Mueller thinks it a variety only of P. aiisirale, 

 hut of that we have not as yet sufficient evidence to justify the union, 



4, OXALIS, Linn. 



Flowers regular. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Disk without glands. Stamens 10, 

 free or united at the base, all bearing antliers. Ovary 5-lobcd, 5 -celled, 

 without any beak or with a very short one ; styles 5, with terminal stigmas, 

 capitate or lobed; ovules 1, 2, or several in each cell. Capsule opening 

 loculicidally, the valves persistent on the axis. Seeds w^ith an outer fleshy 

 coating, opening elastically, with the appearance of an arillus ; testa crus- 

 taceous ; albumen fleshy; embryo straight. — Herbs. Leaves alternate or 

 radical, compound; leaflets 3, digitate, or, in species not Australian, 3 or 

 more and pinnate. Stipules scale-like or none. Peduncles axillary or radical, 

 1 -flowered or bearing an umbel of several flowers. 



A large genus, especially ahundant in South America and cxtratropical South Africa, with 

 a very few species widely dispersed over the temperate or tropical regions of the globe. Of 

 the two Australian species, one is common to New Zealand and Antarctic America, and 

 perhaps not different from a common northern one, the other is a widely-spread weed in va- 

 rious parts of the world. 



Flowers white. Pcdnncles radical, 1-flowered .,...,.. \. O.magellanica, 

 Howers small, yellow. Stem elongated. Peduncles axillary, 1- or 



more-flowered .,,,., 2. 0. cornlcidaia, 



1. O. magellanica, Forst.; BO. Prod, I 700. Eootstock shortly 

 creeping, slender, but often knotted with thickened scale-like persistent sti- 

 pules. Leaves radical, sprinkled with a few hairs ; leaflets 3, obcordate, of a 

 delicate green, on a long common petiole. Peduncles radical, long and 

 slender, bearing a single rather large white flower, with a pair of narro\^^ 

 bracts above the middle. Sepals small, ovate, obtuse, thin. Petals obovate, 

 4 to 6 lines long.. Capsule ovoid, with 1 or 2 shinin^ black seeds in each cell. 

 —Hook, f n. Tasm. i. 59 ; Fl. N. Zeal. i. 42, t. 13 ; P. MueU. PL Vict. i. 

 176; O. laciea, Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 276, and Jouni. Bot. ii. 416; 

 O. cataraclce, A. Cnnn. j Hook. Ic. PI. t 418. 



Victoria. 



Humid subalpiue forests and alpine streams in the western parts of Gipps* 

 Land, at an elevation of 2500 to 5000 ft., F. Mueller. 



' rT^TnA'^^^AnA ,^«""t»iV««^3 and streams in various parts of the colony at an elevation 

 of 1500 to 3000 ft., J, D. Hooker. 



The species is also in New Zealand and in Fuegia and S. Chili. Some of the Victorlaa 

 specimens can also scarcely he distinguished from the O. Aceiosella, Linu, a widely-spread 

 species in the temperate or mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere. The stipules 

 arc rather larger, the bracts longer and nan-owcr, and the leaflets more deeply notched, the 

 nnnute glandular appendage in the notch being often more or less visible in the northern 

 plant. The Tasinauian form, hke the New Zealand and S. American ones, is smaller and 

 more stunted. 



