Gcranium.\ xxxu. GERANIACE^E. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 431 



petals. Don Prodr. 208. G. radicans, DC. Prodr. i. 639. ". G. pallidum and 

 G. patens, Royle Herb. ; Wall Cat. 8560, 8561. G. affirie, W. & A. Prodr. 133 

 (not of Ledebour] Wight III. i. 153, t. 59 (colour of flower wrong ?). G. Arnot- 

 tiatium, Steud. Nomen. 677. 



Throughout the TEMPERATE HIMALAYAS, alt. 5-9000 ft. ; the KHASIA, NILGHIRI and 

 PUTNEY MTS., and in the higher parts of CEYLON. DISTRIB. Yunan. 



Branches sometimes rooting (G. radicans, UC.), more or less clothed with spreading 

 or reflexed hairs. Leaves 1J-24 in. diam., opposite, spreading. Peduncles usually 

 slender, sometimes 1 -flowered, very variable in length, spreading, reflexed after flower- 

 ing. Flowers ^-f in. diam., pink or purple. /Sepals usually silky. Carpels hairy. 

 /Seeds shining, smooth. We find no difference between the Himalayan and Peninsular 

 specimens. The Javanese G. ardjunense, Zoll., may, from the description, prove to 

 be this. 



10. G. sibiricum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 639 ; prostrate, slender, 

 excessively branched, hoary, leaves 5-gonal 5-partite segments rhomboid 

 acute acutely incised, stipules subulate, peduncles slender 1-2-flowered, 

 sepals long-awned, equalling or exceeding the notched petals. Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, i. 879. 



WESTERN TIBET, Nubra and Ladak, alt. 10-12,000 ft. Thomson. DISTRIB. Siberia, 

 Dahuria, Caucasus, Germany. 



Very similar at first sight to G. nepalense, but more flaccid and branched, with the 

 upper leaves all petioled, and shorter notched petals. Thomson's specimens are the 

 only Indian ones we have seen. 



SECT. 2. Pedicels crowded amongst the uppermost leaves, subumbellate. 

 Flower-buds ovoid or oblong, not pyramidal. Carpels wrinkled, becoming 

 detached from their beaks which coil upwards elastically. Bootstock stout, 

 perennial. 



11. Cfr. polyanthes, Edgtw. & Hook.f.; sparingly hairy, slender, 

 flowering-stems naked below, leaves orbicular-reniform 7-9-partite or 

 lobed segments cuneate obtuse 3-7-fid, pedicels short, sepals shortly 

 awned, filaments ciliate. Wall. Cat. 8564. G. Donianum, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 H.f. & T. not of Sweet. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, KUMAON, BUrikworth; Inner valleys of SIKKIM, alt. 9-12,000 

 ft., in grassy places, /. D. Hooker. 



A very singular species, with subsimple stems 6-10 in. high, bearing clusters of 

 flowers amongst the uppermost involucre-like leaves. Flower ing- stems simple or umbel- 

 lately branched about the middle. Leaves 1^-2 in. diam., more or less pilose; petiole 

 of radical very long, upper sessile and crowded under the pedicels ; stipules variable, 

 ovate acuminate or subulate-lanceolate. Umbels 3-10-flowered ; pedicels -1 in., glan- 

 dular-hairy, as are the sepals Flowers \-% in. diam., dark-purple Fruit erect, 1 in. 

 long. Carpels laterally compressed, keeled, strongly reticulate, glabrous ; beaks slender ; 

 styles very short. Seeds smooth. 



SECT. 3. Peduncles 2- or more-flowered, crowded. Flower-buds ovoid or 

 oblong, not pyramidal. Carpels smooth, their beaks remaining attached to 

 the axis (not always in G. rotundifolium). 



* RootstocJc perennial, flowers large. 



12. Cr. Tuberaria, Comb, in Jacq. Voy. Bot.Z^t 37; slender, erect, 

 hairy and glandular, leaves orbicular-reniform 5-7-partite, segments pinna- 

 tifid, petiole very slender, peduncles 2-flowered terminal umbelled or 

 fascicled very hairy and glandular, sepals obtuse awned or apiculate very 

 hairy, petals retuse, filaments ciliate with very long hairs. Walp. Rep. 

 449. 



