430 xxxn. GERANIACE2E. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Geranium. 



segments cuneate obtusely 3-5-1 obed, stipules small ovate acute, pedicels 

 appressed-pubescent or glandular-hairy, sepals shortly awned, filaments 

 ciliate at the base. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. h74. G. multifidum, Don Prodr. -207. 

 G. Donianum, Wall. Cat. 8565 ; Sweet Geran. sub tab. 338. 



WESTERN TIBET, ZANSKAK, I'm. ami KINAU KI:, alt. 12-14,000 ft., Jacquemont, &c.; 

 KASHMIR, Falconer; NIPAL, IVnllidt.; (JAKWHAL, 9-11,000 ft., /,'>///< n-,-th; inner 

 valle\s'f SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. II PISTKIB. Afghanistan, Siberia, S. 1; 



In its common Tibetan form this is a short hoary>pnbeMen1 or glandular st.ecii -, with 

 many subsiraple flowering stems, 6-10 in. high, orbicular (not angled) leaves, with 

 obtusely cut often slender lobes, slender peduncles and pedicels, and large ilowers. 

 Afghanistan specimens are taller, mure slender, and branched. 



6 Cr. Tpalustre, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. (542 ; rather tall, pubescent or 

 hairy, leaves pentagonal pnlmatrly f>-h>bed lobes rhomboid acute pen- 

 natitidly incised, stipules subulate-lanceolate, peduncles long glandular- 

 hairy, sepals awned, petals obovate roiindr.! at the tip. /><//-. Fl. Uric/it, i. 

 b74. G. granditlorum, A'/A/r//-. in Tr<m*. J.inn.Xnc. xx. 42. 



KASHMIR, Falconer; Ki -MA...V :.t Mauu, alt. iM 1,000 ft., Edgeworth. Disi KIU. 

 Siberia, Caucasus, .Mid. and N. Kun ]-. 



Very similar to large states of <!. <-<>Uiinnn, but the Ilowers are larger, nearly 2 in. 

 diaru., and leaves pentagonal in outline from their segmeuts being more produced. 



The identification with (/./"//*'/< is doubtful. 



7. G. Walllchianum, Sweet Ctran. t. 90; DC. Prodr. i. 641; tall, 

 robust, much branched, leaves 5-gmal deeply ;j-;Vhbed segments rhomboid 

 acuminate incited, stipules very lar^e broailly ollong or almost roin, 

 obtuse, bracts larire, jiedieels ICII.LT, sepals loii^-au ned, lilaments ciliate at 

 the base. 1 1'/'//// /c. t. :^4; ll'^//. ('"'. 6568; l)i, Prodr. BOa 



TKMI-KHATK HIMALAYA, all. 7-11,000 ft., from Nipal, \\'<iHich, to .Mani, Flnnhiij. 



More or less pilose or villous with spreading or rellexed hairs, which are rarely glan- 

 dular. Leaves 3-4 in. broad, segments acuiely cut ; stijiiiies .J, 1 in. long, very luoad. 

 Jiriirfx usiiailv -\, linear-oblong, ^ in. long, obtuse, acute or acuminate. FUnoert I .'_, "2 in. 

 diam. J'tttil* obovate, re: ,tt< atx suddenly dilated at the ba>e. t'nrpels 



pilose. Seeds smooth. The very large solitary stipules best distinguish this s] 



8. Cr. Crrevilleanum, Wall. Cut. M50 ; PI. J.s. 7A/r. iii. t. 209; robust 

 or slender, hairy and glandular, branched, leaves 5-gonal 5-7-lobed below 

 the middle segments rhomboid acute or acuminate incised, stipules :Mid or 

 in i>airs ovate acuminate, pedicels long slender, sepals I* -iiL'-awned, filaments 

 villous with long hairs. G. eriostemon, !)> I', <!,<. ^i^, ,it ,,f F<*<h>r. 

 1 G. Lamberti, &wtet Geran. t. 338 G. Backhousianum, Regd. Descript. 

 Pluiil. Nov. Ks73, 32. 



TKMI-KKATK HIMALAYA, alt. 8-11,000 ft . from KIMAON to SIKKINI. 



A tall branched species, resembling G. Wallichianum, but distinguished by the bifid 

 or bipartite stipules and very villous filaments ; it varies much in pubescence and 

 glandular often rellexed hairs, being sometimes almost villous or velvety. Peduncles 

 and pedicels slender, clothed with spreading glandular hairs ; bracts linear, slender. 

 Flowers 1-1 i in. diam. Petals obovate, tip rounded or retuse, hairy at the base, rose- 

 coloured, or very pale with a purplish eye (in Sikkim specimens). -Filaments gradually 

 narrowed upwards. Carpels pilose. Seed* smooth. 



** Flowers less than an inch in diameter (see also 14, G. rotundifolium}. 



I). G. nepalense, Sweet Geran. t. 12 ; slender, diffuse, much branched, 

 hairy or villous, eglandular, leaves 5-gonal deeply 3-5-lobed or -partite 

 upper sessile segments rhomboid incised, stipules subulate-lanceolate, 

 peduncles slender i-2-fid, sepals shortly awned almost equalling the entire 



