24 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [Voltjme 25 



pubescent ; outer sepals mostly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate ; corolla red to white, the 

 petals typically cuneate to spatulate. 



Type locality : Africa. 



Distribution : California. Naturalized from southern Africa. 



Illustration : Cav. Diss. pi. 98, f. 2. 



4. Pelargonium inquinans (L.) L,'Her.; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: -424. 1789. 



Geranium inquinans L. Sp. PI. 676. 1753. 



Plants similar to P. sonale in habit, usually more copioush' soft-pubescent and clammy ; 

 leaf-blades reniform to suborbicular, crenate-lobed and crenate-toothed, without the zone 

 characteristic of P. zonule, deeply cordate ; bracts, pedicels and calyx copiously pubescent, 

 usually soft-hirsute ; outer sepals mostly ovate to oblong-ovate ; corolla mainly scarlet, the 

 petals typically broadly obovate. 



Type locality : Africa. 



Distribution : Southern California. Naturalized from southern Africa. 



Illustrations : Cav. Diss. pi. 106, f. 2 ; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3* : 2. /. 1J. 



5. Pelargonium capitatum (L.) L/Her.; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 425. 1789. 



Cranium capitatum L. Sp. PI. 678. 1753. 



Plants spreading or trailing, more or less wood}', pubescent with long hairs ; leaf-blades 

 orbicular to reniform, shallowly 3-5-lobed, the lobes rounded, toothed; cymes capitate, 

 long-peduncled ; sepals and petals mostly smaller than those of P. graveolcns ; carpel-bodies 

 about 4 mm. long, closely pubescent; style-column about 2 cm. long; seeds about 2.5 mm. 

 long, very finely wrinkled. 



Type locality : Africa. 



Distribution : Southern California. Naturalized from southern Africa. 



Illustration : Cav. Diss. pi. 105,/. 1. 



6. Pelargonium terebinthinaceum (Cav.) Small. 



Geranium terebinthinaceum Cav. Diss. 250. 1787. 

 Pelargonium graveo/ens L'Her.; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 423. 1789. 



Plants more or less woody below, pubescent with both glandular and glandless 

 hairs; leaf-blades broadly ovate, orbicular or reniform in outline, mostly 4-12 cm. wide, 

 palmately 5-7-lobed, the lobes pinnatifid or sinuate-pinnatifid, the segments obtuse ; cymes 

 long-peduncled; sepals oblong or elliptic, 8-9 mm. long, acute; petals about twice as long 

 as the sepals, the larger ones cuneate, 15-17 mm. long, blotched, the smaller ones spatulate, 

 12-14 mm. long; carpel-bodies 4-4.5 mm. long, pubescent; style-column 2-3 cm. long; 

 seeds about 3 mm. long, very minutely wrinkled. 



Type locality : Cape of Good Hope. 



Distrirution : Mexico. Naturalized from southern Africa. 



Illustration: L'H£r. Geran.//. 17. 



