428 xxxn. GERANIACEJE. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Monsonia. 



A diffuse annual herb or undershrub ; branches pubescent and glandular. Leaves 

 f-14 in., long-petioled, obtuse or mucronate, repand-toothed, glabrate above, pilose and 

 pubescent beneath; stipules subulate. Peduncles long, sharply deflexed at the brae- 

 teoles. /Sepals obovate, awned, densely pubescent with long hairs. Petals violet or 

 pink, 3-veined, crumpled, scarcely exceeding the sepals. Filaments ciliate. (Jrn<l* 

 acute, stipitate, obliquely truncate with 2-3 wrinkles at the top, roughly hairy ; 

 beak 3 in. 



2. IK. heliotropioides, Cav. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 897 ; annual or 

 perennial, leaves petioled ovate ovate-cordate or rhomboid minutely toothed, 

 sometimes obscurely lobed hoary above villous beneath, petiole and scape 

 clothed with very long white deciduous hairs, sepals silky or hoary 

 mucronate. M. rnallica, Ed<jw. in Jour. Linn. Soc, vi. ^no. 



PANJAII ; Moultan, fo/yt >r t ,rtli ; beyond tin- Indus in Waziristan, 8ti-,r,irt ; SLXDH, in 

 the Hill range, IVm/-//. l>isTi;ir>. \\estwardsto Kgypt. 



A small white annual herb, or with a well-developed woody rootstock. / 

 I 1 in. Ion.-', chielly radical, very variable in shape, coriaceous, densely silky ,\\\ 

 villous beneath; petiole lon^rr than the blade. Scapes 2-8 in, erect, - 

 rinn-t /.> 1-^ in. diain., innbel'ed. iSepab oblocg, at length obovate and enlarged in 

 IVnit. ]\-1al* ohovale-spathulate, ii"t exceeding the sepals. Slaim n* !.">, sli-htly 

 5-adelphous at the has,.. l-'rn',t \\ in. ; carpels narrow, stipitate, hairy. ke.'l<-d, with two 

 transverse wrinkles at the top. The Indian specimens are usually but not 

 annual, and never so large as the Persian and Arabian specimens. The structure of 

 the fruit is identical with that of Eruiliam. -!/j>uc,,iiin, but the stamens a 

 dill'erent. 



3. GERANIUM, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs. / posite or alternate, stipulate. Fed 



axillary, bracteate, 1-2-flowered, or pt-diccls umbflli'd. Wowt-r* ivgular. 

 Xrjmk ,"), imbricalo. 7V/^//.s 5, liypogynoiis, inibi-icati', alturnatitig with 5 

 glands, tfftiittr/ix 10, usually all author-bearing, rarely 5 without anthers, 

 free or shortly monodelphous. Owory 6-lobed, 5-celled, beaked ; styh-s ">, 

 stigmatose longitudinally, ovules sujiei-posfd. CnjixH/c. r> lobc.l, r>-celled, 

 cells l-seedt>(l, carpels usually dehiscent ventrally, often separating septi- 

 fragally from tlie axis, their beaks plastically coiling upwards, from the 

 base to the apex of the axis. ,bV '/.< with scanty albumen or o ; embryo 

 with the coty lei ions imluplitrate or convolute incumbent. DISTKIB. Species 

 about JOO, natives ehielly of cold tempi-rate n-gions in the Northern 

 Hemisphere ; they are very difficult of discrimination. 



SECT. 1. J'wtiiiu-ti's axillary and terminal, solitary, 2-flowered. Flower- 

 cfx oblong or ovoid, not pyramidal. ,!vy//.s not dilated or subcordate at 



the base. Cai'jetn, with their beaks separating elastically from the axis, 



not wrinkled. ixootstock stout, perennial. 



* Flowers large, an inch or upwards in diameter. 



f 2><<t<i/x 



1. G-. refractum, Edcjew. & Honk.f.; tall, stout, branched, glandular- 



hairy, leaves 5-7 partite segments obtuse deeply lobed and cut, stipules 

 large, bracts linear very slender, sepals shortly awned, petals reflected, 

 filaments nearly glabrous. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Tungu, alt, 12-13,000 ft., /. D. H. 



titems 2-4 feet, erect. Leaves 3 in. diam , shortly pubescent on both surfaces; 

 lower petioles long; stipules ^ in., broadly oblong, ovate or obtuse. Peduncle and re- 

 fracted ptdlcels long, clothed with spreading hairs. Sepals ^ in., membranous, glan- 



