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with a broad stigma. —-This genus is confined to the East Indies and Archipelago, New Zealand, the east coast of |. 
- New Holland, and Norfolk Island; but no species is common to any two of these localities, (Named probably in = 
honour of G. L. Hartig, a French author on forest-trees, etc.) Pa 
1. Hartighsea spectabilis, Adr. Juss.; foliis glaberrimis imparipinnatis, foliolis 3-5-jugis petiolatis 
oblongo-obovatis acuminatis obtusisve integerrimis, paniculis e trunco elongatis laxe ramosis multifloris 
pendulis, calyce pedicellisque pubescentibus, capsula obovata plerumque 3-valvi, loculis 2-spermis. ddr. 
Juss. Mem. Mus. v. 9. p. 227. A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Pi. 616 et 617. Trichilia, Forst. DC. 
A. Rich. T. spectabilis, Banks et Sol. Ic. et MSS. 
Haz. Northern Island; Bay of Islands, and east coast, Banks and Solander. Middle Island, Forster. 
Fl. May, June. Nat. name, “ Kohe,” Colenso. 
This is the only New Zealand species of the genus. The leaves, Mr. Bidwill says, are used as hops, and a 
spirituous infusion of them as a stomachic. The petioles are a foot or more long. Leaflets petioled, 3-6 inches 
long, quite smooth, oblong-obovate. Flowers produced from the trunk, in panicles 8-12 inches long, pale-coloured. 
Petals i inch long. Capsules pendulous, an inch long, obovate; seeds with a red arillus. 
NAT. Og». XVII. GERANIACEJE, DC. 
Gen. I. GERANIUM, Herit. 
Sepala et petala 5, equalia. Stamina 10, fertilia alterna majora, basi glandulis instructa. Oarpellorum 
aristce intus glabre, elastice e basi ad axeos apicem circinatim revolute. 
A very large genus, pretty uniformly scattered over the temperate parts of the globe, but comparatively rare in 
the Southern Hemisphere. It is to be distinguished from Pelargonium by its ten fertile stamens; and from Erodium, 
a common European plant, which is becoming naturalized in New Zealand, by the awns of the carpels not being 
spirally twisted, but simply revolute.—The species are extremely difficult to discriminate, and it is far from clear to 
me whether the New Zealand ones are different from the European or not: they are the same as Australian 
and Tasmanian species. All vary exceedingly in size, in the cutting of the leaves, amount of hairiness, and size of 
flowers. (Name from yepavos, a crane, on account of the beak-like carpels.) 
1. Geranium dissectum, L.; caule decumbente v. suberecto patentim v. retrorsum piloso rarius glabrato, 
foliis rotundatis 5-7-lobatis partitisve, laciniis linearibus dissectis obtusis apiculatis acutisve, pedicellis 
2-floris, sepalis pilosis aristatis, petalis calyce brevioribus v. longioribus emarginatis, capsulis levibus 
pilosis, semine reticulatim punctato. 
Var. B; patentim pilosa, petalis calyce subduplo longioribus v. brevioribus. G. pilosum, Forst. Prodr. 
DC. A.Rich. A. Cunn. Nees ab Esenbeck, Plant. Preiss. v. 2. p. 162. Sweet, Geran. v. 2. t. 119. 
Var. B. retrorsum; caulibus petiolis pedunculisque retrorsum pilosis, petalis plerumque parvis. G. re- 
trorsum, DC. Prod.? G. patulum, Forst. Prodr. ete. 
Var. y. glabratum ; foliis 3-5-lobis, lobis late cuneatis 3-5-fidis. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. All the varieties are abundant in waste places, etc., Forster, etc. 
Nat. name, “ Pinakitere.” 
A branching herbaceous plant, covered more or less copiously with spreading or retrorse hairs. —Root perennial, 
tuberous, used by the natives for food in times of scarcity, and called ““ Matua Kumara,” Colenso. Stems weak, 
suberect, a span to a foot high. Zeaves on long petioles, orbicular, deeply cut and lobed. Peduncles two-flowered. 
Flowers very variable in size, white, pink, or purple. Capsules even on the surface, hairy. Seeds covered with re- 
ticulated impressed dots. This plant is common in Australia and Tasmania, and has been referred by Sir W. J. Hooker 
