426 xxxn. GE RANI ACE JE. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 



ORDER XXXII. GERATTCACEJE. (15y M. P. Edgeworth. F.L.S., 

 and J. D. Hooker.) 



Herbs, undershrubs, or rarely trees ; glabrous or more usually pubescent 

 and glandular. L< j aws opposite or alternate, usually 2-stipulate. 2*edun<'l':* 

 usually solitary and axillary, 1- or more-flowered. Flowers umbelled 

 cymose or racemose, usually showy, hermaphrodite, regular or irregular. 

 &-IHI!S 5, rarely 4 or 2, free or united to the middle, imbricate or rarely val- 

 vate, the posticous sometimes spurred. Petal* as many as the sepals or 

 fewer by suppression, or 0, hypngynous or subperigynous, variously imbri- 

 cated, rarely contorted. Torus scarcely expanded into a disk with 5 glands 

 alternating with the petals, or without glands, raised in the centre into a 

 beak, rarely flat. /Stamens as many as or double or treble the sepals, or fewer 

 by suppression ; filaments filiform or dilated, or connate into a ring ; anthers 

 2-celled, cells parallel, opening lengthwise. <M//y/ :>,-.vlobed, 3-5-celled, 

 rarely 2-lobed, of :j-."i carpels united with the axis as far as the insertion of 

 the ovules, sometimes lengthened into a beak-bearing style, or styles which 

 are free or more or less united, stigmas capitate linear or ligulate ; ovules 

 1 or 2 or rarely more, horizontal or pendulous or ascending. /'/// /V capsular, 

 3-5-lobed, lobes 1-seeded often separating from the axis septieidal or locu- 

 licidal rarely berried. Seeds pendulous or horizontal, albumen () or scanty 

 or fleshy : embryo straight or curved, cotyledons Mat convex or variously 

 folded foliaceous or thick or fleshy, radicle either short and near the hiluni 

 or longer and inflected or incumbent on the cotyledons. DISTETB. Genera 

 20, with about NH> species, chietly found in temperate climates. 



r.esides the LTeii'-ra deseril.ed In-low, /VA//v/o,,///,// (the irarden so railed Geranium) 

 is cultivated throughout India, and OD! if Natal (P. grossularioides, /-"",- 



Erndium nila^inVmii. S,-/ t !,r/if. /V /ml. Or. exiieO, l.V.O). is iiaturali/i'd in tin- Nil- 

 ghiris. 'I'd.- -(mis is distinguished l>y the jmsticoiis s.-pal hein^ jiroiluced into a spur 

 whidi is adnate to the ]>.-'|je,.l and by some of the filaments being antherless. 



TRIBE 1. G-eranieee. /. am I >imple or compound. /-Vo/'-'-yx regular or 

 nearly so. ,s',y /,//> imbricate. f,'/utn}.<t alternate with the petals. Anttieri- 

 fcrfnt.f xl<n/u/tx as many or double or treble the number of petals. 



Carpels indehisccnt ; not beaked. Ovules solitary. 



Stamens 10, all perfect ............. 1. BIKHERSTEIMA. 



Carpels beaked, dehiscent. Ovules geminate. 



Perfect stamens 15, penUdelphoos ......... 2. MONSONIA. 



Perfect stamens 10, rarely fewer .......... 3. OKKAMTM. 



1'erfect stamens 5, staminodes 5 .......... 4. ERODIUM. 



TRIBE 2. Oxalideae. Leaves compound. Flowers regular. Sepals imbri- 

 cate. Glands 0. titiymas capitate. Ovules 2 or more. 



* Herbs. Fruit cajmufar. 



Stamens 10. Capsule loculicidal, valves cohering with the axis. 



Leaves 3-co -foliate ..... ......... 5. OXALIS. 



Stamens 10. Capsule loculicidal, valves usually separating from 



the axis to the base. Leaves pinnate ........ 6. BIOPHYTUM. 



** Trees or shrubs. Fruit berried. 



Stamens 10, .or 5 and 5 staminodes. Ovules many. Leaves 



pinnate ................... 6.* AVERRHOA. 



Stainena 10. Ovules in pairs. Leaves 1-3-foliolate ..... 7. CONNAEOPSIS. 



