90 GERANIACEZ. [Geranium. 
ovate, cuspidate. Peduncles 1-4in. long, 1-flowered, with 2 acu- 
minate bracts about the middle. Flowers large, #-lin. diam., 
white or pink. Sepals broadly ovate, cuspidate. Petals broad- 
obovate, entire, much longer than the sepals. Carpels silky-pilose. 
Seeds very minutely reticulated.—7’, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 80; Buch. 
in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vii. t. 13, £. 2. 
CuatHam Istanps: Not uncommon in open places, H. H. Travers! J. D. 
Enys ! November—December. 
By far the finest of the New Zealand species. Well characterized by the 
silvery hoary pubescence, 1-flowered peduncles, large flowers, and minutely 
reticulated seeds. 
5. G. molle, Linn. Sp. 682.—A diffuse or procumbent much- 
branched annual or perennial, more or less softly pilose in all its 
parts; stems 6-12 in. long. Radical leaves numerous, on long 
slender petioles; blade orbicular, 1-2 in. diam., 5--9-lobed to below 
the middle ; lobes obovate or cuneate, irregularly lobed or crenate. 
Cauline leaves smaller, on shorter petioles, with fewer but deeper 
divisions. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 2-flowered. Flowers 
small, purplish. Sepals broadly ovate, mucronate. Petals deeply 
notched, barely exceeding the sepals. Carpels usually distinctly 
marked with transverse wrinkles. Seeds smooth, not reticulated. 
—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 40; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 87; T. Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 81. 
KermabDec Isnanps, NortH AND SouTH IsLANDS, STEWART ISLAND, CHAT- 
HAM IsLANDS.—Abundant throughout, ascending to over 2500ft. in the South 
Island. Common in Europe, north Africa, and western Asia; and natural- 
ised in other countries. 
There can be little doubt that this is introduced, but as it has had a place 
given to it in previous works on New Zealand plants, and as it is now found in 
all soils and situations, and would certainly be considered indigenous by a 
stranger unacquainted with its history, it appears best to retain it in the Flora. 
2. PELARGONIUM, L’Herit. 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, entire 
toothed lobed or variously divided. Flowers usually in few- or 
many-flowered umbels on axillary peduncles, irregular. Sepals 5, 
the uppermost produced into a short spur adnate to the pedicel. 
Petals 5 or fewer by abortion, the 2 upper different from the 
others and usually larger. Disc without glands. Stamens 10, 
hypogynous, connate at the base, 5-7 (rarely fewer) fertile, the 
remainder without anthers or rudimentary. Ovary 4d- lobed, 
5-celled, beaked; beak terminated by 5 short styles, which are 
longitudinally stigmatose; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule split- 
ting into 5 carpels with long styles, which roll up elastically ; 
seeds 1 in each carpel. : 
Species about 180, the whole of which are natives of South Africa except 3 
found in North Africa and the Levant, and 2 in Australia and New Zealand. 
