190 GBRANIACE^. (GERANIUM FAMILY.) 



Tribe i. BIEBERSTSINE:^. Ovary beakless, 5-lobed, Btigmas capitate. 

 Cells 1-ovuled, Albumen little, one-sided, 



1 . BIEBERSTEINIA. Styles arising from inner side of base of carpels, free. 



Tribe 11. GKRANIKJE. Ovary with a beak formed by the styles, which are ad- 

 nate to the axis, and separate from it elastically at maturity, carrying with them the carpel . 

 Cells 2-ovuled. Albumen 0. 



* Flowers regular, or petals sometimes slightly unequal. 



2. MONSONIA. Stamens 15, all fertile, 5-adelphous. Styles cui-ved upward in fruit. 



3. GERANIUM. Stamens 10, all fertile. Styles curved upward in fruit. 



4. ERODIUM. Stamens 10, of which 5 are sterile. Styles spirally twisted in fruit. 



* * Flowers irregular, the upper sepal spurred. 



5. PELARGONIUM. Stamens 10, of which 7 are fertile. Styles curved upward in fruit. 



1. BIEBE:itST£l]\^lA, Steph. Biebersteinia. 



Flowers regular. Sepals growing in fruit. Glands 5, fleshy, al- 

 ternating with petals. Stamens 10, all anther bearing, connate at base 

 in a short ring. Carpels 5, crustaceous, wrinkled, affixed from base to 

 middle to a short gynophore, the ovule jiendulous by a short funicle 

 below the apex of the cell, anatropous — Perennial, glandular herbs, 

 with pinnatisect leaves, and panicled or spiked flowers. 



B. miiltifida, DC. 2^ .3 to. 4 ; root thick, tuberous, branching; 

 stem thick, grooved, glandular, scaly above base. Leaves lanceolate, 

 hairy, sparingly glandular, '^-h-jjinnatisect into linear, acute lobules. 

 Petals cream-colored, about as long as calyx — Spring — Subalpine 

 regions of Lebanon and Antilebanon ; Plain of Damascus. 



2. MOiVSO^'IA, L. MoNSONiA. Tahaq. 



Flowers regular. Petals and sepals equal. Glands 5, alternate 

 with petals. Stamens 15, all bearing anthers, connate in a ring at base, 

 united into 5 bundles opposite the petals. Carpels indehiscent ; styles 

 hairy within, rolling up elastically at maturity from base to apex — 

 Annual to perennial herbs, resembling Erodium. Petals undivided, 

 soon deciduous. 



M. nivea, Dec. ® 11 Yaliaq. ,15 to .25 ; stems procumbent, 

 white-hispid. Leaves ovate-oblong, appressed-silvery-canescent, crenate- 

 toothed, plicate above. Sepals obovate-oblong, canescent, scarcely 

 mucronate ; petals flesh-colored, obovate, scarcely longer than calyx ; 

 beak .04 long, 6-8 times as long as capsule — Spring — Et Tih to Sinai 

 and Egypt. 



3, OERABi'IUM, L. Cranesbill. Geranium. Jernd. ^Utr. 



Flowers regular. Sepals equal. Glands 5, alternate with petals. 

 Stamens 10, generally all anther-bearing. Valves of capsule round at 

 base, splitting down the inner side. Styles glabrous within, curving 

 upward in fruit — Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubby at base ; 

 peduncles generally 1 -flowered. 



* Perennials. 



1. O. §ubcaiilesceiis, L'herit. 2f .1 to .2, rootstoch 'vertical, 

 cylindrical ; stems few-flowered, sometimes leafless. Leaves round, 

 .02 broad, 5-parted intocuneate, trifid segments, appressed-velvety, of- 



