GARDEN BOTANY. XXXIX 



jof Good Hope, have the flowers a little irregular, with a hollow tuhe extending 

 prom the base of one of the sepals some way down one side of the peduncle, 

 pome of the 10 filaments without anthers; and so, although called Geraniums, 

 [belong to the genus 



1. Pelargonium. There are a great many varieties and hybrids in cultiva- 

 I tion. Most of the common sorts come from the following botanical species ; 

 t but some of them are much mixed. 



* Leaves peltate, fleshy : stems trailing. 



P. peltatum, IVY-LEAVED P. Smooth or smoothish, the 5-angled 5-lobcd 

 i leaves fixed near the middle ; the flowers pink. 



* % Leaves rounded or round-cordate, crenate, toothed, or moderately lobed. 

 P. ZOnale, HORSE-SHOE P. Shrubby, with thick and juicy branches ; 

 I the roundish-cordate leaves marked on the upper face with a dark semicircle ; 

 flowers many in a close umbel ; petals narrow, scarlet, red, or sometimes 

 | white. 



P. in'quinans, STAINING or SCARLET P. Resembling the foregoing, 

 I but velvety-pubescent and clammy, the leaves without the horse-shoe mark ; 

 I petals broadly obovate, intense scarlet, also with pale varieties. 



P. CUCUllatum, COWLED P. Shrubby, not juicy, softly villous ; leaves 

 , round-reniform and cupped ; umbels panicled ; flowers rather large, pink- 

 purple. 



P. cordatum, HEART-LEAVED P. Like the last, or smoother, with open 

 ?ordate-ovate leaves. 



P. angulosum, MAPLE-LEAVED P. Shrubby, harsh-hairy; the leaves 

 [ not cordate at the base, sharply-toothed, angled, and more or less lobed ; 

 I flowers much like the two last, pink-purple, with dark streaks. 



P. capitatum, ROSE-SCENTED P. Scarcely shrubby, spreading, softly 

 [ hairy, with the rose-scented leaves round-cordate and moderately lobed, the 

 lobes short and broad ; peduncle bearing many sessile flowers in a head ; 

 !. petals short, rose-purple. 



P. odoratissimum, NUTMEG-SCENTED P. Low, with herbaceous and 

 , weak branches, and soft-velvety round and crenate leaves, which are sweetly 

 I iromatic ; the flowers white and insignificant. 



* # ^ Leaves conspicuously lobed, cleft, or compound. 



P. grandifiorum, GREAT-FLOWERED P. Shrubby, smooth and glau- 

 ?ous ; leaves palmately 5-7-clefD; peduncles bearing abouf 3 large flowers, 

 8 ,vith white petals, the 2 upper larger and elegantly veined, sometimes varie- 

 rated with pink or rose-color. 



P. tricolor, THREE-COLORED P. Low, rather shrubby; the long- 

 K'tiolcd small leaves silky-hoary, oblong, incised, and 3-lobed or pinnatih'd ; 

 x'dunclcs bearing 2 or 3 showy flowers ; the three lower petals white, the two 

 \ ipper crimson, with a dark spot at their base. 



P. exstipulalum, PENNY-ROYAL P. Low, rather shrubby, with the 

 eaves small, velvety, roundish-ovate, truncate at the base, 3-lobed, also 

 . ricised, with the scent of Penny-Royal or Bergamot ; stipules obsolete ; flow- 

 ers few, small, and white. 



P. quercifolium, OAK-LEAVED P. Shrubby, hairy and glandular; 

 eaves deeply sinuute-pinnatifid, with a cordate base and wavy-toothed blunt 

 1 obes, often spotted, strong-scented ; flowers rather few, purplish. 



P. grave' olens. Leaves more deeply cleft into 5 or 7 obtuse lobes, more 

 wiry, and the scent balsamic; peduncles many-flowered; otherwise resem 

 jling the last. 



P. Ra'dula, ROUGH P. Very rough and hairy with short and rigid 

 Dristles ; the balsamic or mint-scented leaves palmately parted, and the divis- 



