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40 XXVIII. GERANIACES. 
Divaricately-branched, fleshy or succulent, rigid shrubs, armed with 
spines formed from persistent and hardened petioles. Leaves obovate or 
obcordate, entire or crenate. Peduncles 1-flowered.—3 species: in the 
Northern, North-Western, and North-Hastern districts. 
4. GERANIUM, Linn. 
Sepals equal at base. Petals spreading equally. Stamens 
10, all perfect, the alternate longer. Glands at the base of 
the longer stamens.—F!. Cap. i. p. 257. 
A cosmopolitan genus.—5 Cape species, all slightly suffruticose. Slender 
perennials, with palmately-lobed or cut and multifid, long-petioled leaves. 
Peduncles 1—2-flowered, opposite the leaves or in the forks of the branches. 
5. ERODIUM, L’ Her. 
Sepals equal at base. Petals spreading equally. Stamens 
5, perfect, bearing anthers; 5 sterile, subulate or obsolete. 
Glands at the base of the sterile stamens.—Fl. Cap. 1. p. 259. 
Herbs, rarely undershrubs. Leaves simple, either pinnatipartite, pinna- — 
tifid, cut or digitately parted. Peduncles mostly umbellately several- 
flowered. —5 Cape species, of which 2 are endemic, 3 probably of European 
origin. 
6. PELARGONIUM, L’Her. 
Calyx 5-parted, the upper segment produced at base into a 
slender nectariferous tube, which is decurrent along the 
pedicel and adnate to it. Petals 5, rarely but 4 or 2, more or 
less unequal. Filaments 10, unequal, monadelphous ; 2-7 
bearing anthers, the rest abortive. 
A large genus, chiefly South African.—A bout 163 Cape species, distri- 
buted under the following sections : — 
1. Hoarea. Stemless, with tuberous roots. Petals 5 or 4. 
2. SEYMOURIA. Stemless, with tuberous roots. Petals 2. 
3. Potyactium. Caulescent, with tuberous roots. Leaves lobed or 
_ pimnatipartite. Umbels many-flowered. Petals subequal, obovate, entire 
or multifid. 
4, Orrpra. Stem succulent and knobby. Leaves fleshy, pinnately or 
bipinnately cut. Petals subequal, the upper eared at base. 
5. LigvuLariA. Stem either succulent or slender and branching. Leaves 
rarely entire, mostly much cut or pinmatisect. Petals rather unequal, spa- 
thulate, the upper tapering at base. 
6. Jenkrnsonra. Shrubby or succulent. Leaves palmately-nerved or 
lobed. Two upper petals on long claws, very much iarger than the lower. 
Stamens 7. 
7. Myrrurpium. Slender, suffruticose or annual. Leaves pinnatisect. 
Petals 4 (rarely 5), two upper largest. Calyx segments membranous, 
strongly ribbed and mucronate or taper-pointed. 
8. PeristERA. Herbaceous, diffuse, annual or perennial. Leaves 
lobed or pinnatifid. Flowers minute. Petals scarcely longer than the 
calyx. (Habit of Geranium or Hrodium.) 
9. Campytia. Stem short, subsimple. Leaves on long petioles, undi- 
vided, entire or toothed. Stipules membranous. Flowers on long pedicels. - 
