162 MANN, 



from all other Geraniums by their wedge-shaped or oval and parallel- 

 nerved leaves. 



A large genus, found throughout the temperate regions, and in the mountains of the 

 tropics iu some parts of the globe. 

 Leaves green, softly hairy. 



es ovate, obtuse, cuneate at fee base, ......... 1. G. multiflorum. 



Lea 

 Lea 



Leaves 



s ovate-acuminate, cordate at the base, 4. G. arboreum. 



ilky-canescent on both sides, or glabrate. 



es ovate, and serrate at the apex and on the sides, . , . . . 3. G. ovati/olium. 



es cuneate, serrate at the apex, and entire on the sides, . . . 2. G. cuneatum. 



1. G. MULTIFLORUM Gray. (Enum. No. 60.) An undershrub ; the 

 branches, peduncles, leaves, &c., softly pubescent with fine and spread- 

 ing hairs. Leaves approximate, membranaceous, roundish-obovate, 

 1^' long, 1' or more wide, coarsely toothed except the more or less 

 euneate base, green on both sides, 7-9-nerved from the base, the 

 nerves more or less forked, and connected by anastomozing veinlets. 

 Petioles ' - 1' long. Stipules setaceous-subulate from a dilated and 

 connate-clasping base, minutely ciliate, scarious, brownish, 4" -5" 

 long. Peduncle becoming lateral by the growth of the branch, elon- 

 gated (3' long), bibracteolate at the middle and at the summit, where 

 it branches into a repeatedly trichotomous, open, loose, and many- 

 flowered cyme. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, subulate, scarious. Inter- 

 nodes of the cyme i'-l'loug; pedicels 1"- 3" long, erect in flower 

 and fruit. Sepals pubescent, ovate-oblong, mucronate, 3" -4" long. 

 Petals obovate, entire, a little longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, all 

 alike ; filaments distinct. Ovary and beak (!' long) pubescent. 



District of Waimea, Hawaii. 



2. G. CUNEATUM Hook. (Enum. No. 61.) A shrub l-2 or more 

 high, much branched; branches thickly beset with the scaly and 

 persistent stipules. Leaves crowded, coriaceous, i'-l' long, '-|' 

 wide, wedge-shaped, the apex truncate and 3-5-toothed, tapering to 

 an acute base, the sides entire, strongly 5-7-nerved, nerves mostly 

 simple mid parallel. Petiole 2" -3" long. Peduncles terminal or op- 

 po>ite the leaves, short or often elongated, cymosely 5 - 12-flowered, 

 or by abortion 1-3-flowered; the peduncles, &c., many-bracted, the 

 bracts subulate, small. Pedicels i'-f long. Sepals 2" -3" long, 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, barely mucronate. Petals white, obovate, 4"- 

 5" long. Stamens as in $. multiflorum. Var. MENZIESII: leaves 

 green and nearly glabrous on both sides, as is the calyx. The young 

 branches, petioles and peduncles, &c., minutely puberulent. Var. 

 HYPOLKUCUM : plant decumbent and spreading. Leaves densely silky 

 below, either white or yellowish, as is the outside of the calyx; above 

 dark green, with silkyness on the nerves; or plant upright, leaves 

 green above. Var. IIOLOLEUCUM : leaves finely silky on both sides, 



