76 GERANIUMS. 
commencement of Australian colonisation. 
A herb from a few 
inches to a few feet high, more or less downy. Leaves heart- 
shaped or verging into a kidney-shaped or roundish form, lobeless 
or short-lobed, crenated, measuring from scarcely 1 to 6 inches, 
all opposite, or rarely the uppermost alternate, traversed by 
radiating and ramified nerves and divergent veins, more or less 
waved or sometimes quite crisp. Stipules free, membranous, 
Fic. XXXII. 
Fie. XXXTI.—(Pelargonium Rodneyanum).— 
Natural size of a small variety. 
triangular - lanceo- 
late, persistent, 
from 3 to } of an 
inch in length. 
Flowerstalks axill- 
ary, not opposite, 
1-3 inches long, 
bearing umbels of 
many or rarely few 
flowers. Involucre 
formed of small 
membranous semi- 
lanceolar or subu- 
late-linear _ bracts. 
Stalklets more fre- 
quently shorter than 
the flowers, than 
exceeding them in 
length. Flowers 
rather fragrant. 
Segments of the 
calyx lanceolar, 
from } to 4 of an 
inch long, three- 
nerved; nectar-tube 
short. Petals spa- 
tular- or wedge- 
shaped-ovate, about 
twice as long as the 
calyx, entire, at the 
