Erodium.] xxxn. GERANIACE^:. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 435 



exceeding the sepals. Ovary silky. Carpets brown, stipitate, with stiff white hairs, 

 split on the back ; beak f-1 in. long, 3-4 times the length of the cell, rough on the 

 outer side, in the inner side with long brown hairs and a few setfe, hairy to the tip. 

 This resembles E. chiutn and cegyptiacum, which differ in their mucrouate sepals. 



5. E. malacoides, Willd. ; DC* Prodr. i, 648 ; anuual, leaves 3-fid or 

 lacerate shortly pubescent, sepals awned, carpels pitted below the beak. 

 JSoiss. Fl. Orient, i. 893. 



PANJAB, Falconer; Indus Valley at Attok, Peshawur, and Hazara, Stewart. 

 DIHTKIB. Westward to S. Europe and K. Africa. 



Softly hairy, hairs on the stem deflexed. Stems erect or diffuse, elongate, 

 branched. Leaves ovate- oblong, acute or obtuse, shortly appressed-pubescent, lower 

 cordate; stipules large, scarious, acute or obtuse. Inflorescence glandular; peduncles 

 3-many-flo\vercd; bracts ovate, scarious, ciliate. Sepals membranous, two outer 5- 

 and three inner 3-nerved, awn hairy. Petals ciliate at the base, obovate, lilac,- 9-nerved. 

 Filaments glabrous, lanceolate. Staminodes linear. Ovary hairy. Carpels stipitate, 

 3-gonous, setose ; beak 4-5 times as long as the cell, with stiff brown hairs for \ of its 

 length ; pits with a deep fold. 



** Beak of camels plumose on the ventral face, with long soft cilia. 



6. 23. stipaceum, Edgew. ; hoary, annual, leaves oblong crenate- 

 toothed lobed or unequally pinnatifid, sepals, silkily hoary apiculate, fila- 

 ments ciliate 5 inner the broadest, carpels slender hispid with transverse 

 wrinkles at the tip of the valves, beak very long. 



WESTEKN TIBET? Vigne (Herb. Falconer}; PANJAB beyond the Indus in Bannu 

 Stewart. 



Eoot woody, but apparently annual ; branches straggling. Leaves {-\ in., variable in 

 shape, oblong or linear- oblong ; petiole slender. Peduncles several-flowered; pedicels 

 short. Flowers 3 in. diam. Sepals concave, strongly 3-nerved. Petals narro\v-cuneate, 

 equalling the sepals. Filaments subulate, ciliate, the inner series much the largest and 

 broadest. Fruit 3-4 in., slender, erect; carpels slender, narrowed into a stipes, terete, 

 transversely grooved at the base of the beak, covered with stiff hairs with swollen 

 bases, beaks membranous, silkv, hairs fulvous. A very close ally of Monsonia hetero- 

 tricha, notwithstanding the different stamens. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



E. VIOL^FOLIUM, Turz. Mosc. Pull, xxxvi. i. 592. u Csespitos^, diffuse, pilose, 

 leaves petiolate cordate obtuse sinuate-l<>l>ate crenate, with scattered adpressed hairs, 

 peduncles 3-5-flowered, calyx aristate, fruit densely hairy." Western Peninsula, P<r- 

 rotet. '* Root fibrous, stalk 4-5 in. long, arista n.ot plumose wb,en young." Speci- 

 mens not seen, only known from the above (? Monsonia senegalensis}. 



E. NILAGIRICUM, Schleckt. Herb. Ind. Or. 1560, is an introduced Cape Pelargo- 

 nium (P. grossularioides}. 



5. OXALIS, Linn, 



Acid herbs, rarely shrubby. Leaves radical or alternate, stipulate or ex- 

 stipulate, compound, usually 3-foliolate. Flowers, on axillary 1- or more- 

 flowered peduncles, regular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, 

 contorted. Gl<oids of the disk 0. Stamens 10, free or united at the base, 

 all anther-bearing. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled ; styles 5, distinct, stigma ter- 

 minal capitate 2-tid or laciniate ; ovules 1 or more in each cell. CY/y*"/'' 

 with loculicidal dehiscence, valves persistent to the axis. Seeds with an outer 

 fleshy coat w r hich bursts elastically, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy; 

 embryo straight. DISTRIB. Species about 200, chiefly tropical and temperate 

 & American and S. African. 



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