

MELVACK.E GEKANIACE E .>13 



A. striatum, Dirks. Flowering maple. Fig. 161. Shrub: leaves 

 lobed, green: flowers 'li ping, on long solitary axillary peduncles, bell- 

 shaped, veiny-orange or red. Brazil. A conservatory ami ^ 

 1 1 - .ii- plant. 



A. Thompsoni, Hort. Spotted flowering mnpU. Like the 

 last, but th<- leaves spotted with yellow, and tin- column of 

 stamens strongly projecting from tin- flower. Common in 

 cultivation. 



4. HIBISCUS. Rose Mallow. 



Herbs or shrubs, with an involucre of many narrow bracts : 

 stamen-column anther-hearing mos* of its length: styles .">, 

 united: pod 5-loculed, loculicidal: flowers large and showy. *** Atratilon 



H. Syriacus, Linn. Althea of cultivated grounds. I: striatum. 



of Sharon. Shrub 10ft.: leaves wedge-ovate and 3-lobed : flowers showy, 

 in various colors, in the leaf-axils in summer and fall, often double. Asia. 



XIV. <iKi;AXlA(K.K. Geranium Family. 



Herbs, chiefly with simple leaves: flowers perfect, in mosl genera 

 nearly regular (but sometimes very irregular), 5-merous : stamens as 

 many or twice as many as the sepals, hypogynous: ovary single, the 



LoCUleS usually as many as the sepals: fruit ea| Millar. A mOSl diV( 



family, often divided into Beveral. There are aboul 20 genera and 700 

 species. Common examples are geranium, pelargonium, nasturtium, 

 in, jewel-weed or touch-me-not, oxalis. 



a. Flowers regular or very marl 



it. Leaves Bimple (often deeply lobed). 



c. Anther-bearing stamens in 1 . Oeranium 



CO. Anther-bearing stamens aboul 7 2. /' largonium 



bb. Leaves compound ::. < >. 



a.\. Flowers very Irregular. 



B. Flower witli one very long Bpur i Uim 



mi. Flower hanging by its middle, with asborl booked spur. 5. Impat 



1. GERANIUM. I BILL. 



Small herbs with forking stems aid I :: flowered peduncles: nepala and 

 petal- 5: glands on the torus ">, alternating with tie- petal- ; stamen* 10, 

 usually all of them with perfect anthen . frull S 1 needed 

 Ing from the axis from the base upwards aid curling outwards. 



G. maculatum, Linn. I 181. I'erennlal, 



1 2-ft., hairy erect: leaves orbicular, deep] rtod: pel 



ontheclaw: ti" purple, I In Common; spring. 



G. Robertiiimuu, l.inn. Herb Robert. Annual or biennial, l ft. or some 

 tun. - balrj . i i B dh Ided Into pinna! i ml 

 divisions: tl-. ' in- or |< ah red. MoUl places; imon, 



