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Tribe 2. GERANIE®. Flowers regular or irregular. Sepals unequal, 
strongly imbricate. Stamens 5-7—-10-15, monadelphous or polyadelphous. 
Ovary beaked, the beak prolonged into a style; stigmas 5, linear. Carpels 
l1-seeded, tailed. Leaves mostly simple, variously cut or multifid, stipulate. 
Flowers regular. 
Stamens 15, in parcels of 3each. . . . . . . 2. Monsonta. 
Stamens 15,monadelphous ... .. . . . 8. SARCOCAULON. 
Stamens 10,monadelphous ...... . . 4 GERANIUM. 
Stamens 5, monadelphous. . ~asnLe On HRODIUM, 
Flowers irregular. Stamens 7 or fewer. Petals 3; 
or the lower absent; back sepal tubular at base, 
the tube connate with the padicel:~... . . 6. PELARGONIUM. 
Tribe 3. BatsaMINE®. Flowers selenite Sepals coloured, very un- 
equal, the posterior spurred, two anterior very'small or none. Petals hy- 
pogynous. Stamens 5, short. Ovary beakless; stigma sessile. Capsules 
bursting with elasticity. 
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TriBeE 1. OXALIDE. 
1. OXALIS, Linn. 
Sepals 5, free or united at base. Petals 5, convolute, their 
claws conniving into a funnel-shaped tube. Stamens 10, con- 
nate at base, 5 alternate shorter. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled, 
beakless; ovules few or many; styles 5, filiform; stigmas 
capitate or pencilled. Capsules deeply 5-lobed, globose or 
oblong; seeds 1 or several, albuminous.—F7. Cap. i. p. 313. 
A cosmopolitan genus, particularly abundant in the southern hemisphere. 
Leayes compound; leaflets rarely 1 or 2, commonly 3, sometimes many 
and digitate. Flowers red purple white yellow or streaked.—There are 
(at least) 108 Cape species, all herbaceous, and most of them bulb-rooted ; 
they blossom in the winter and early spring months. 
TRIBE 2. GERANIE. 
2. MONSONTA, Linn. f. 
Sepals equal at base, mucronate. Petals spreading equally, 
longer than the calyx. Stamens 15, connate at base and 
spreading in 5 parcels, each of 3 stamens, whose filaments co- 
here for half their length. Ovary 5-lobed, beaked ; ovules so- 
litary.— Fl. Cap. i. p. B54, 
Annual or perennial, herbaceous or half-shrubby plants, with slender 
stems. Leaves simple, subentire, toothed, or deeply-lobed or cut. Pe- 
duncles #2, or umbellately several-flowered.—8 Cape species, dispersed. 
3. SARCOCAULON, DC. 
Sepals equal at base, mucronate. Petals spreading equally. 
Stamens 15, connate at base ; filaments subulate, not coher- 
ing in parcels.—Fl, Cap. i. p. 256. 
