XLVII. GEBANIACE^E. 



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Geranium. 



Seed cut 



transversely (mag.). 



Geranium. 

 Seed, entire and cnt 

 vertically (mag.). 



Geranium. 

 Androecium and pistil (iriag.). 



Erodium eicutarium. 

 Flower without corolla (mag.). 



Monsonia. 

 Bundle of three stamens. 



Erodium cicutarium. 



Erodium. Pistil (mag.). 



Monsonia. Diagram. 



CALYX 5-merous, imbricate. PETALS hypogynous, cestivation contorted. STAMENS 

 hypogynous, usually twice the number of the petals. CARPELS 5, cohering by their 

 inner edges into a 5-celled ovary prolonged into a beak; cells 2-ovuled. FRUIT a, 

 capsule, opening elastically from below upwards. SEEDS exalbuminous. EMBEYO 

 curved; cotyledons folded or coiled. LEAVES stipulate. 



HERBS or UNDEESHEUBS, sometimes fleshy (Pelargonium, 8arcocaulon) . Lower 

 LEAVES opposite ; upper alternate or opposite, petiolate, simple, usually palminerved 

 and with palmate divisions, rarely pinnatisect, sometimes entire or crenulate; 

 stipules twin at the base of tlie petioles, foliaceous or scarious. FLOWERS , regular 

 or irregular (Pelargonium), rarely solitary, usually in pairs or involucrate umbels ; 

 peduncles opposite to the alternate leaves, or axillary in one of a pair of opposite 

 leaves, or in the fork of a branch, sometimes radical. CALYX free, persistent, 5- 



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