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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Geonoma—continued. 
G. deversa (turned aside). /., spadix reddish, flexuous, droop- 
ing, simply branched. jr. bluish-black, as large as a pen.  l. 
borne on long petioles, divided into two or three pairs of 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate-cuspidate leaflets. A. 2ft. to 3ft. 
French Guiana, 1846. 
G. fenestrata (window-like). A synonym of Malortica gracilis. 
G. Herbstii (Herbst’s). A plant closely resembling G. gracilis, 
but broader in the leaf segments. 1889. 
G. interrupta (interrupted). /. imbricated; spadix pi 
lately multitid. jf. dark violet, shining, elliptic, as larg a 
Hazel-nut. /. terminal, 8ft. to 9ft. long, pinnatitid; leaflets 
faleate, acuminate. h. 6ft. Peru, 1849. 
G. lacerata (torn). /. broad, bilobed, the lobes (in young 
plants) upwards of lin. across, lacerately split at the apex, 
the surface ribbed so as to appear plicate; petioles broad, 
sheathing at-base, flattened and slender upwards, angular on 
the dorsal side. Central America, 1869. (I. M. 1869, t. 446.) 
G. maxima eat Sec . moncecious; spadix slender, droop- 
ing, lft. long, borne below the leaves, compound-branched. 
l. terminal, pinnate, 4ft. EE leaflets twenty to thirty, 
lanceolate, acute, 8in. to Yin. long. Stem 1jin. thick, erect, 
naked, whitish, noded. h. 10ft. to 12ft. French Guiana. 
G. pinnatifrons (pinnate-leaved). jl. imbricated; spadix 
branched, Ree Jr. the size of a pea, 7. terminal, 
innatifid ; pinne erose at the summit. Stem slender, 15ft. 
igh. French Guiana, 1821. 
G. Pohliana (Pohl’s). ji. slightly fuscous, imbricated ; male 
spadix nearly 2ft. long, much branched; female nearly 
equalling the male, but with fewer and slenderer branches. 
Jr. ovate. 1. 5ft. to 7ft. long, unequally pinnatitid ; leaflets 
linear-lanceolate, somewhat falcate. Rio Janeiro. 
G. Pynertiana (Pynert’s), of gardens.* J. shortly-stalked, 
apparently spineless, glabrous, the smallest 24ft. by 10in., 
oblanceolate, gradually tapering to the base, divided at apex 
into two rounded, erose lobes with an acute sinus; midrib 
rominent on both surfaces. Malaya. A strikingly handsome 
alm; according to the Kew authorities, it is an Jyuanura, 
probably I. Speranskyana. See Fig. 407, for which we are 
indebted to the ‘‘Gardener’s Chronicle.” (G. C. 1898, xxiii., 
p. 258, f. 98; BR. H. 1898, p. 262, f. 92.) 
G. Seemanni (Dr. Seemann’s).* J., those first produced about 
2in. long, the later ones 10in. long, broadish, bilobed, forming 
two sharp-pointed divisions, feauianveiued, strongly plaited ; 
petiolés sheathing at base, with a broadish, scarious margin. 
Central America, 1869. Plant stemless. (I. M. 1869, t. 428.) 
G. Siesmayeriana (Siesmayer’s). This plant is described as 
“a species of tufted habit, with glaucous-green leaves which 
are tinted with red when young” (Catalogue, L’Horticulture 
Internationale, 1896). 
G. Spixiana (Spix’). /. imbricated ; spadix lft. to lift. long, 
paniculate, pubescent. fr. dark violet, shining, as large as a 
Hazel-nut. ¢. terminal, 4ft. long, undivided, lanceolate, cuneate 
at base, bifurcate at apex. Stem 6ft. to &ft. high. Brazil, 1824. 
G. tenuifolia (slender-leaved). 1. like those of G. gracilis, but 
glamcous ; young ones tinged with rose. Eastern Peru, 1895, 
G. imperialis, G. Princeps, G. pulchella, and G. zamorensis have 
also been introduced, but are rare in cultivation. 
GEOPHILA (from ge, the earth, and phileo, to love; 
in allusion to the dwarf habit of the species). Onrp. 
Rubiacee. A genus embracing eight or ten species of 
slender, creeping, stove perennials, only differing from 
Cephaelis in their diminutive size. Only one has been 
introduced. It will thrive in a compost of sandy, fibry 
peat, leaf soil, and loam, with efficient drainage, and may 
be increased by seeds or by division. 
G. picta (painted). 7. white, small, many in a head. J. ovate- 
oblong, 2in. long, dull green, with a pink midrib and pink hairs. 
British Guiana, 1896. 
GEOPHILA (of Berger). 
(which see). 
GEOTRUPES STERCORARIUS. 
borne Beetle. 
GERANIUM. To the species and varieties described 
on pp. 62-4, Vol. II., the following should be added : 
G. aconitifolium (Aconite-leaved). jl. white, lin. to 1ljin. 
across; sepals long-awned; petals spreading, ovate, rounded 
at tip. May and June. JZ. 2in. to 24in. across, three- to nine- 
parted ; segments narrow, acute or obtuse ; upper leaves sessile, 
with radiating lobes. h. 1ft. to 2ft. South Europe, India, &c., 
1775. 
G. armenum (Armenian).* /l. blood-red, very showy, about 
lsin. across; petals obovate, retuse, black-spotted at base ; 
peduncles long. Summer. J., lower ones broadly cordate, 
ve-parted; segments incised, acute, deeply toothed; upper 
leaves triangular; radical ones 6in, to Sin. across, h, Sft. 
Orient. (R. H. 1881, 350.) 
A synonym of Merendera 
See Shard- 
Geranium—continued. . 
G. gymnocaulon (slender-stemmed). A form of G. ibericum. 
G. lancastriense (Lancaster). A form of G. sanguwineum. 
G. Lowii (Low’s). jl. pink, in large clusters; stalks fleshy, lft. 
to 2ft. high. J. 3in. to 12in. in diameter, in five divisions, each 
division again deeply divided. 
G. nodosum (noded). f. purplish-red, striate-veined; petals 
emarginate. ummer. 7., lower ones five-lobed, upper ones 
three-lobed ; lobes oblong, acuminate, serrated, clear beneath. 
Stems tetragonal. Europe (Britain, but not indigenous). 
G. platypetalum (broad-petaled), A form of G. ibericwm. 
G. sanguineum album (white).* A lovely white form, free as 
to growth and desirable for either borders or rockeries. 
G. sessilifiorum (sessile-flowered). /l. white and purple, almost 
sessile; petals small. /. thick, mostly radical, on long petioles, 
divided into five- or seyen-lobed segments. Rootstock tap- 
. rooted. Australia and New Zealand (in alpine districts), 1894. 
G. subcaulescens (short-stemmed). jl. red; petals very blunt, 
longer than the villous calyx. JU. almost radical, villous, rather 
greyish, five-parted; lobes blunt, three-toothed. Stem very 
short. Asia Minor. Allied to G. asphodeloides. 
G. Traversii (Travers’). jl. ight purple, streaked with carmine, 
large. J. silvery, similar to those of G. argentewm, but larger. 
New Zealand, 1898. 
G. tuberosum Charlesii (Dr. Charles’). /l. rose-coloured, lin. 
to 14in. across, the petals enlarging till they fall off. /., radical 
ones none; lowest cauline ones an oe the uppermost 
ones sessile. Afghanistan, 1885. (B. M. 6910.) 
GERARDIA. Including Dasistoma or Dasystoma. 
Flowers pedicellate or almost stalkless, sub-racemose at 
the tips of the branches, without bracteoles; calyx 
campanulate, five-toothed or five-cleft nearly to the 
middle; corolla tube broad, the limb spreading, with five 
rounded lobes; stamens four. ‘To the species described 
on p. 65, Vol. II., the following should be added : 
G. tenuifolia (slender-leaved). . pale violet, Pentstemon-like ; 
corolla sin. or more in length; peduncles slightly exceeding 
the leaves. June to August. J. linear, acute, ;,in. to din. 
broad, light green. A. 15ft Mexico, 1894. A much-branched 
perennial. 
Fic. 408. GERBERA JAMESONI. 
