xxxn. GERANIACE^E. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 437 



TRIBE 3. Balsamineae. Leaves simple. Flowers irregular. 8rj>nts 

 usually coloured, the posticous spurred. /Stamens 5, very short. AntJiers 

 subconnate. 



Lateral petals connate in pairs. Fruit capsular 8. IMPATIENS. 



Lateral petals free. Drupe fleshy 9. HYDROCERA. 



1. BIEBERSTEINIA, Stephan. 



Perennial glandular herbs. Leaves stipulate, pinnatisect. Flowers regu- 

 lar, racemose or panicled. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, 

 imbricate, alternating with 5 glands. Stamens 10, all bearing anthers, fila- 

 ments united into a ring at the base. Ovary deeply 5-lobed, 5-celled ; styles 

 distinct, arising from the bases of the lobes, connate into a capitate stigma ; 

 ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous from below the top of the cell. Ripe 

 carpels separating from a persistent 5-lobed axis, indehiscent, crustaceo is, 

 wrinkled. Seeds incurved on one side of the fleshy albumen; embryo 

 arched, cotyledons thick. DISTRIB. Several species, natives of Asia, Siberia, 

 Greece, the Altai Mountains, and Tibet. 



1. B. empdi, Jaub. & Spach. III. PL Or. ii. 109; leaves pinnatisect 

 lobes pinnatifid, stipules adnate laciniate, bracts oblong or obovate lobed, 

 petals entire. B. odora, Royle III. 153, t. 30, not of Stephan. 



ALPINE WESTERN TIBET and KUNAWAR alt. 14-17,000 ft., Jacquemont, &c. 



Glandular-pubescent. Rootstocks densely tufted, branched, tuberous, giving off crowns 

 of leaves and short simple flowering stems a fe\v inches high. Leaves linear, with 

 many pairs of small broad irregularly lobed leaflets ; stem leaves small. Flowers 

 racemose, in. diam., yellow ; pedicels equalling the calyx, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 

 elliptic-oblong, pubescent. Petals nearly orbicular. Filaments hairy. Styles slender. 

 The aspect, and in many respects the structure, of this plant is singularly Rosaceous, 

 and like a Potentilla. 



2. XKONSONXA, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, stipulate. Peduncles 

 axillary, bracteate. Flowers solitary or umbelled. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 

 5, hypogynous, imbricate, alternate with 5 small glands. Stamens 15, all 

 bearing anthers, shortly monadelphous, 5 of them opposite the petals. 

 Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled, beaked ; beak ending in the style, bearing 5 linear 

 branches inwardly stigmatose ; ovules 2, superposed in each cell. Capsule 

 with a very long beak of 5 1 -seeded carpels ; carpels with 5 elastic tails 

 which are bearded on the inner side, and separate from the beak. Seeds 

 exalbuminous ; embryo incumbent on the convolutely folded cotyledons. 

 DISTRIB. South Africa; genera of about a dozen species, besides 4 or 5 

 North African species and the present. 



1. 3*1. seneg-alensis, Guill. & Perr. Fl. Senegamb. i. 131 ; viscid, leaves 

 ovate or cordate, peduncles rarely 2-nowered, beak of carpels very long 

 setose on the inner face. Boiss. FL Orient, i. 898. M. Lawiana, Stocks in 

 Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 19. M. Chumbalensis, Wight Ic. in t>.rf 

 t. 1074. Erodium Chumbalense, Munro in text Wight I c. t.'l074. ? Gera- 

 nium Lawianum, Graham Cat. Bomb. PL Supplemental 2>aye. 



SINDH, Stocks; UPPER GAXUETIC PLAIN near AGRA, Munro; the DEKKAX, common 

 in dry pastures, Gibson, &c. DISTRIB. Beluchistan, Arabia, aud westwards to Sene- 

 gumbia and Namaqualaiid. 



