xxxii. GERANIACEJE. (Edg'ewortk & Hook, f.) [Biupliytnm. 



<). Metziana, Mif/. in Herb. Hohtnacl: 144. 0. gracilenta, Kurz in Jour*. 

 J*. >Soc. llctiff. 1870, ii. 68. O. sensrtiva, Walt. Cat. 4343 F, K.Kheede 

 Jlort. Mai. ix. 33, t. 19. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India, as far to the N.W.as GAUWHAL ; and in CI:VL<>X. 

 l.JisTKiu. China, Java. 



Uut distingui-hed from B. xcv*itintnt by the graceful habit, slender peduncles, and 

 small flowers with the capsule not much overtopped by tin- sepals. The seeds vary in 

 amount of fin-rowing and tubercles exactly as in ]}. m-nsitictnu. The following three 

 varieties are regarded as species ly Mr. Edgeworth : 



YAK. I. 'B&nwardfii proper; BI < d- spiia'lv fnrr. wed. 0. Keinwardtii, Zucc. in [><nt. 

 (). Fensitiva. Linn. ll< rl. \npart; Will. Cut. -i:U3 B 2. 



YAK. 2. nervioide*; reede deeply furrowed and tnbercld. 



YAH. .".. Mitr.tnna; seeds turbinate 5-7 furrowed tuberculate. To which should be 

 added 



YAK. 4. gracilenta; seeds tubercled not furrowed. 



** Stan iixunllii l>r<n-ltl in a }>,-<Jii< r<i* in<'v/r. Ltjl,t* , 

 ftt't/afr < acuminate; f/- firm in<tl jn,- </<'//< /<>//?/ ahnrt> r thn il- r&t, 



:"). B. nudum, Am. /// Nob. A<-t. J. //. C'<cfe, xviii. 3i'(;; stem t;ill 

 sim])k- or branched, lcafl"N !;">-:?() pairs liiu'ar-iddon.u; obliquely al>ni])tly 

 ci)s])i(l;itc cijual at the base, midrib straight, lu-rvcs rlo>-sct, jiedicels 

 equalling or exceeding the sepals, seeds tuliereled not furrowed. II '/;//// 

 111. \. 1CI. 



OBI K'N. Central Province, alt. -\ i;n(i(l ft. 



A]parentlv annual. >V, /// i; is in., sometimes as stont as a goose-quill, often nrdd- 

 lately branched. Acrr\ _' Sin., rac^ia tomentose: Ifullets .', in., glabrous, margins 

 ihicKein-d, ba.-e Irnm-ai'- uder, pnbe-cent ; jiedicels \<. tit ,"> in., 



BCarcel^' exceeding the giobo>e capsule. 



fi. B. proliferum, Am. in Xr. Act. A cad, t'<i#. xviii. 327; stem slender 

 pnstrato <ri])inii>ly dicliotomoualjr branched from a woody stock, h-'ives 

 short, leaflets very small .Vlo-pairs oblong obliquely cuspidate, midrib 

 nearly straight, base eijn;d. peduncles very ,-hort usually 1-llowered, seeds 

 tuliercled not furrowed. IIV<//// ///. i. Id'. 



Cl VI... X. alt. IVHIO ft., in///-,/-. <;,','!, 



A ivinaikalile sjiecies, ea- ily n-'-dgnised by its excessively branch' habit, 



slender branches, minute lealh ts, and solitary, rarely geminate (lowers. l',r<n-ln'x and 

 peduncles jmbescent. Lutr-cx rarely 1 in., in whorls ; leaflets ^ in. long, usually gla- 

 brous above; nerves oblique, slender. J'f'i'iiiH-fi'x Jiiucli shnri"i- than the leaves and than 

 the very slender pediccis. >'/yv//x hairy. ab..nt as long as the leaflets. 1 identify this 

 v ith Arnott's plant on the faith of two specimens thus ticketed by himself in Wight's 

 Herbarium, though Arnott descrihes the umbel as 'J-f>-llo\veied. and the K-allets as 

 ) ilose above, and does not allude to the remarkable smallness of the foliagi,- ; ui '. 



sn-pei-t that he had both this and the following under his -eye. 



7. B. intermedium, Wit flit 111. i. 162 ; branches very numerous from a 



stout woody rootstock slender dichotomously branched, leaflets 15-20 

 pairs linear-oblong abruptly cuspidate, midrib somewhat arched, base equal, 

 peduncles usually exceeding the leaves several-flowered. 



CEVI.OX, Wnll-vr. 



A much larger plant than B proliferum, of a very different habit, having long 

 arching branches arising from a woody stock as thick as the finger. Leaves 2 in. long ; 

 leaflets \- in., glabrous or pilose above, margins sometimes ciliate, nerves close-set, 

 ( !> iipie : prtiole ciliate with lo >g hairs. Flowers three times 'as large as in B. proli- 

 f<-r/ii)>. 1 have identified this by specimens in Wight's Herbarium; which contains a 



