Part 1, 1907] GERANIACEAE 17 



ciliolate margins; petals purple, 13-15 mm. long; style-colnmn 14-17 mm. long, pubescent 



with ascending hairs; carpel-bodies about 4 mm. long, hirsute; seeds nearly smooth. 



Tvpe collected at Alvarez, San LuisPotosi, Mexico, September 2S to October 3, 1902, E. Palmer 

 146. ' 



Distribution: Northern Mexico. 



45. Geranium Goldmanii Rose, sp. nov. 

 Perennial, the caudex branched. Stems erect or partially decumbent, hirsute, branched 

 throughout ; leaf-blades pentagonal or somewhat reniform in outline, 2-4 cm. wide, hir- 

 sute on both sides, deep-green above, pale-green beneath ; petioles hirsute, mostly longer 

 than the blades ; peduncles greatly elongate ; pedicels hirsute, often rather thinly so ; 

 sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 8-10 mm. long, the bodies oblong to ovate-oblong, with 

 few long hairs on the veins on the back, rounded at the top, the tips mostly about 1 mm. 

 long; style-column 19-22 mm. long, sparingly pubescent, short-beaked ; carpel-bodies 4-4.5 

 mm. long, pubescent. 



Type collected at Teopisca, Chiapas, Mexico, May 7, 1904, E. A. Goldman 946. 

 Distribution : Southern Mexico. 



46. Geranium pedatifidum Hanks, sp. nov. 

 Perennial, the caudex branched. Stems several, 1-5 dm. long, more or less branched, 

 sparingly retrorse-pubescent leaf-blades somewhat angled, closely hirsute beneath, 3-5- 

 parted, the main divisions 2-pinnatifid, the segments often cleft or toothed ; peduncles 

 slender, greatly elongate, often between 15 and 20 cm. long, each bearing 2 pedicels ; 

 pedicels retrorsely pubescent ; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 9-11 mm. long, the bodies 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, ciliate ; petals purple, 12-16 mm. long; style-column hirsute ; 

 carpel-bodies densely pubescent ; seeds not seen. 



Type collected near Real del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico, July 19, 1905, J. N. Rose, J. H. Painter 

 &J. S. RoseS690. 



Distribution : Middle Mexico. 



47. Geranium niveum S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21 : 421. 1886. 

 Perennial, the caudex branched. Stems tufted, scape-like, erector ascending, 2-5 dm. 

 long, copiously retrorse-strigillose with white hairs, the first node elongate ; leaf-blades 

 reniform in outline, 4-7 cm. broad, 5-7-parted, the divisions parted into linear, permanently 

 silky-canescent lobes which are not impressed-veined above ; petioles elongate, pubescent 

 like the stem ; pedicels stout, more or less glandular-pubescent, with spreading hairs ; 

 sepals awned, the outer ones 10-12 mm. long, the bodies oblong or nearly so, finely pubes- 

 cent and ciliate; petals pink-purple, 14-16 mm. long; style-column 25-30 mm. long, 

 minutely glandular-pubescent, purple ; carpel-bodies 4-4.5 mm. long, pubescent with 

 purple hairs ; seed reticulate. 



Type locality : Norogachi, Mexico. 

 Distribution : Northern Mexico. 



48. Geranium madrense Rose, sp. nov. 



Perennial, the caudex branched. Stems loosely tufted, erect or nearly so, 1-3.5 dm. 

 long, scape-like, sparingly and finely retrorse-strigillose with inconspicuous hairs, the first 

 internode elongate; leaf-blades somewhat pentagonal in outline, 2.5-5 cm. wide, mostly 

 5-parted, the divisions again parted into narrowly linear ultimately sparingly pubescent 

 segments which are impressed-veined on the upper surface ; petioles elongate, more closely 

 pubescent than the stems ; pedicels copiously pubescent with gland-tipped hairs ; sepals 

 awn-tipped, the outer ones 11-12 mm. long, the bodies oblong-lanceolate, finely glandular- 

 pubescent, less ciliate than the inner ones; petals purplish, 16-19 mm. long; style-column 

 21-24 mm. long, copiously glandular-pubescent ; carpel-bodies about 6 mm. long, pubescent 

 like the style-column ; seeds not seen. 



Type collected near Santa Teresa, Tepic, Mexico, August 10, 1897, J. N. Rose 2161. 

 Distribution : Tepic. 



