] xxxii. GERANIACE.E. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 437 



Throughout the hotter parts of INDIA, ascending to 6000 ft. in the Himalaya, and 

 CKILON. DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, Africa, and America. 



Stems long or short, slender or robust, hispidly pubescent. Leaves lg~5 in.; petiole 

 hispidulous or merely ciliate ; leaflets very variable in size, |- in., sometimes arched 

 a little upwards, nearly equal at the base except the terminal one, which is obovate Mini 

 oblique at the contracted base, nerves few or many rather oblique often waved. 

 Peduncles very variable, ^-5 in., hispid, sometimes swollen at the tip ; bracts rigid, 

 setaceous; pedicels usually shorter than the sepals, sometimes equalling them <r a 

 little longer. /Sepals rigid, subulate-lanceolate, grooved, glandular and hispid. Pi-tah 

 usually twice as long as the sepals, yellow (sometimes purple?). Capsule elliptic, 

 shining ; cells few-seeded. Seeds very variable, minute, with transverse oblique acute 

 or obtuse ridges that are more or less broken up into tubercles. 



VAK. 1. Candolleana ; leaflets 10-15 pairs, more or less strigose or appressed pilose on 

 the upper surface, seeds both tubercled and grooved. B. Candolleanum, Wight 111. i. 

 161, t. 62 ; Wall Cat. 4343 D. Western Peninsula, and Ceylon. 



VAK. 2. ass arnica ; leaves 3 7 in., leaflets 7-15 pairs glabrous, petiole and rachis 

 nearly glabrous, seeds turbinate smooth acutely furrowed, flowers yellow. Wall. Cat. 

 4343 G. Assam. 



VAK. 3. nervt folia; leaflets about 12 pairs glabrous, nerves few strong and waved 

 beneath as in B. Apodisciaa. B. nervirolium. Thwaites Enum. 64. Bengal, Ceylon. 

 Mr. Edge worth, who has laboriously studied the Indian forms of this genus, distin- 

 guishes as species 1, B. Candolleanum, described above ; 2, B. sesbanioides, Edgew. 

 mss (Wall. Cat. 4343 A), with ciliate downy nerved leaflets, and (judging from dried spe- 

 cimens) pnrple flowers; 3, B. Cumingianum, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc., with 6-15 pairs of 

 glabrous leaflets, and 4, B. poterioides, Edgew. mss. (Wall. Cat. 4343 B) which is stem- 

 less with 6-12 pairs of glabrous leaflets, strongly nerved beneath, purple petals and 

 shining not tubercled seeds with forked furrows. 



2. B. Apodiscias, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. xxxvi. i. 599 (Aposcias 6y 

 error] ; leaflets 5-7 pairs small shortly and reniformly obovoid widening 

 towards the rounded tip, nerves beneath few strong horizontal waved, pedi- 

 cels sessile, seeds with scattered tubercles. Oxalis sessilis, Hamilton in, 

 Wall. Cat. 4344. 0. Petersii, Klotzsch in Peters Mossamb. Reis. Bot. t. 5. 



BENGAL, at Monghir, Hamilton; ASSAM, Griffith; KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft,, 

 /. D. H. & T. T. ; MYSORE and CABNATIC, G. Tkoms. Herb. 



Annual. Stem 1-2 in., slender. Leaves 1-14 in., crowded; leaflets rather coria- 

 ceous, pale, the lowest smallest orbicular-ovate, the middle ones truncate at the base, 

 the terminal with a contracted oblique base and much arched midrib ; petiole puberu- 

 lous. Flowers ^ in. long. /Sepals exceeding the pedicels. Probably only a state of 

 B. sensitivum, approaching var. nervifolium, but distinguished by the small size, arched 

 midrib of the leaflets, absence of peduncle, and simply tubercled seeds. 



3. B. adiantoides, Wight mss. ; leaflets 12-25 pairs linear-oblong tip 

 rounded very unequal at the base, midrib straight, peduncles slender, 

 pedicels equalling the sepals. 



TENASSEKIM, at Mergui, Griffith. 



A very distinct and large species ; stem, petiole, rachis and peduncles tomentose and 

 pilose. Leaflets f in. long, sides nearly straight, base obliquely truncate, lower edge 

 short, upper long, sometimes produced into an obscure lobe at the anterior margin. 

 Pal dudes slender, with a clubbed mass of bracts at the apes.. Flowers imperfect. 



4. B. Reinwardtii, Walj>. Rep. i. 476 ; leaflets 10-20 pairs oblong tip 

 rounded equal at the base glabrous, midrib straight, nerves slender oblique, 

 peduncles slender, pediJels equalling or exceeding, the small flowers, 

 c.ipsule almost equalling the small sepals. O. .sensitiva, Zucc. in Munch. 

 jbaifa. ix. 183, t. v. B. 0. Keinwardtii, 2ucc. in Hunch. Abhattd. i. --, < 



