Geranium.} xxxn. QERANiACE^E. .(Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 433 



keeled, seeds punctulate. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 883. G. Lindleyanum, 

 J!f>f/l<i III. 151, t. 27. 



Western Temperate Himalaya, alt. 6-8000 ft., from KASHMIR, Falconer, to GARWHAL, 

 Stracli. & Winter. DISTRIB. Siberia, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Europe. 



A reddish fetid rather succulent annual or biennial. Branches 6-18 in., brittle, 

 leafy. Leave* 13 in. broad; petiole long ; stipules ovate, Flowers 4 in- diam., 

 streaked with, dark and light red. Petals narrow, claw glabrous. Fruit f-1 in. ; 

 beak of carpels separating upwards from the axis and attached to its apex by silky 

 hai rs ._" Herb. Robert." 



17. r. liicidnm, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 644 ; annual, glabrous, slimmer, 

 leaves orbicular 5-7-lobed lobes 5-fid cuneate, pedicels with a series of 

 hairs, sepals long-awned shorter than the spathulate petals, carpels reti- 

 culate keeled nearly glabrous, seeds smooth. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 884. G. 

 laevigatum, Royle III. 150. 



Temperate Western Himalaya ; from KisurwARto KUMAON, alt. 6-9000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 Siberia, S^ria, the Caucasus, Europe, N. Africa. 



A suberect, much-branched, brittle herb, with usually bright red branches. Leaves 

 f-1 4 in. diam., lobes short broad; stipules acute. Peduncles longer than the petioles. 

 Flowers ^-^ in. diam. Sepals wrinkled. Petals rose-red, claw glabrous. Fruit ^ in., 

 glabrous, beak very slender; carpels small, separating both from their beak and 

 the axis. 



18. G-. ocellatum, Camb. in Jacg. Toy. Sot. 33, t. 38 ; annual, hoary- 

 pubescent or hairy and glandular, excessively branched, prostrate, slender, 

 leaves orbicular 5-7-lobed lobes cuneate 3-5-fid, petals large broadly 

 obcordate much larger than the acuminate sepals, carpels corrugated, seeds 

 smooth. Walp. Ann. i. 449. G. bicolor, and G. choorense, Royle III. 

 149, 150; Wall. Cat. 8562. 



Hills of the PANJAB; temperate and subtropical Himalaya, alt. 1-6000 ft., from 

 KASHMIR and the SALT RANGE to E. NIPAL ; BEHAR, on the top of Parusnath, 

 Anderson. 



A small straggling species. Leaves ^ 2 in. diam. Peduncles sometimes clustered, 

 and subumbelleil as in G. Tuberaria, at others axillary solitary and 1 -flower -d. Flowers 

 $ in. diam., rose-coloured with a dark purple eye. /Sepals rigid after flowering, 

 wrinkled from pressure against tfae carpels. Fruit erect, | in. long ; carpels small, 

 separating from the axis and beak, which latter eventually coils up elastically. Seeds 

 shining, pale. B\mnd in E. Nipal (Tambur river), but not hitherto in Sikkiin. 



DOUBTFUL AND UNKNOWN SPECIES. 



G. HETEROTRICHOX, Sm. / Royle III. 150. 



G. PEDUNCULATDM, PiOi/le, I.e. Of this and the preceding species no information is 

 given by Royle ; Smith has nowhere described a G. heterotrickon. 



4. ERODXtTM, L'Herit. 



Herbs, rarely undershrubs, with the branches swollen or jointed at the 

 nodes. Leaves opposite, often alternately smaller, stipulate. Flowers 

 usually regular, in axillary 1 -flowered or umbelliferous peduncles. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, with alternating glands. Stamens 5, 

 alternating with 5 staminodes. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled, long-beaked ; 

 styles 5, atigmatose longitudinally; ovules 2, superposed in each cell. 

 Capsule 5-lobed 5-cellftd, cells 1-seeded ; carpels indehiscent, separating 

 septifragally from the axis, their beaks elastically coiling upwards from the 

 base to the apex of the axis, hairy on the inner surface, each with usually 



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