NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



to the leaves or clearly terminal.^ Some hundred species- are kuowu ; 

 hut on account of hcing reckoned twice over the number is some- 

 times made a hundred and fifty, or more. They inliahit all the 

 temijerate regions of the world, and the more elevated and cooler 

 parts of the mountains in tropical and subtropical regions. 



Frodkmi,^ formerly united to the Geraniums, has been artificially 

 separated as a genus because its oppositipetalous stamens are sterile 

 and reduced to squamiform filaments. Their fruits present differences 

 of little value'' and theii- organs of vegetation are the same. Some 

 fifty species are described' inhabiting the temperate regions. Some 

 are found in South Africa and Australia. 



Monsonia,^ numbering some fifteen species,'^ inhabiting South and 

 Eastern Africa, and tropical Western Asia, consists on the contrary 

 of Geraniums with fifteen stamens which seem to form, at the adult 

 ai'e, five alternipetalous bundles. In each bundle is a central stamen 

 lar"-er than the rest and superposed to a sepal, the lateral 

 stamens forming a pair at first oppositipetalous.** This genus, which 

 has been divided into thi-ee sections," belongs to Southern and Eastern 

 Afi-ica, and to the East. 



' Whence it results that when the inflorescence 

 is lateral or oppositifolius, it is often drawn up 

 and raised. 



"■ CAV.i)(ss.t. 70-97,124-126 (part).— Reichb. 

 Ic. Fl. Genu. t. 187-198.— H. B. K. Xoi: Gc». ct 

 Spec. V. 229.— Gken. et Godr. Fl. A Fr. i. 297, 

 313.— SiiiTH. Fl. Gi-ac. t. 6.59-661.— Stev. in 

 Mém. Soc. Sist. Nat. Mosc. iv. 50, t. 5.— Boiss. 

 Fl. Or. i. 869.— Jacquem. To//. Bot., t. 37, 38.— 

 Wall. PI. As. Rar. t. 209.— Wight, III. t. 59.— 

 Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 295.— Habv. et Sond. Fl. 

 Cap. i. 257.— Hook. r. Fl. Autarct. t. 5; Man. 

 N.-Zcal. Fl. 35.— Hook. Icon. t. 198.— A. S. H. 

 F'l. Bras. Mer. i. t. 20. — C. Gay, Fl. Chil. i. 387. 

 — Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 290.— A. Guay, Man. 

 ed. 5, 107 ; Unit. St. Expl. F.rp. Bot. i. 308, t. 

 29-31— Chai'M. Fl. S. Unit. St. 65.— Wali>. 

 licp.i. 447; ii. 819; v. 389; Ann. i. 139; ii. 

 234 ; iv. 395 ; vii. 483. 



•^L'hek. Geranioloff. t. 1-6. — DC. Prodr. i. 

 644. — Space, Stdt. à Buffon, iii. 303.— IMeissn. 

 Gen. 57.— Endl. Gen. n. 6045.— A. Gray, Gcii. 

 III. t. 151.— B. H. Gen. 272, n. 5.— H. Bn. in 

 Puijer Fam. Nat. 400. — Scolopucinm, Eckl. et 

 Zeyu. Enum. 59. — ? Isopetalum Sweet, Geran. 

 t. 226 (ex B. H. loc. cit. 273). 



* The tails wliich support the cells after de- 

 hiscence are generally covered inside with long 



yellow hairs. 



5 Cxy.Biss. t. 76-97.— lÎEK-nii. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 t. 183-186 (if«-orf(«;»).— SiiiTH. Fl. Once. t. 

 651-058.— GiiEN. et GoDit. Fl. de Fr. i. 307, 313. 

 — Jaub. et Spacu, 111. PI. Or. t. 189, 203, 204. 

 — Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 884.— Harv. et Sond. Fl. 

 Cup. i. 258.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 292.— Benth. 

 Fl. Aastral. i. 297.— A. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 108 ; 

 Unit. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 317.— A. S. H. Fl. 

 Jiras. Mer. i. t. 19.— Walp. Rrp. i. 445 ; ii. 818 ; 

 V. 379 ; Ann. i. 137, 965, ii. 233 ; iv. 392. 



^ L. Mantiss. n. 1268.— J. Gen. 269.— L'her. 

 Oeranioloff. t.41, 42.— DC. Prodr. i. 638.— Exdl. 

 Gen. n. 6049.— Payee, Orr/anop. 62, 1. 12.— B. H. 

 Ge)i. 271, n. 2. — Ilolopetaliun, Kl. in linntca, x. 

 i2S.—Sarcocanlon, B. H. Geii. 272, n. 3. 



7 Cav. Bif^s. t. 74, 75, fig. 1, 2 ; 113, fig. 1.— 

 Sweet, Geran. t. 77, 199, 273.— Wight, lean. t. 

 1074.— Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 897.— Harv. et Sond. 

 Fl. Cap. i. 254, 256 {Sarcocaidon).—0-Li-v. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. i. 289.— Walp. Pep. i. 451 ; Ann. ii. 

 236. 



" Voy. Payer, Ort/anoff. 60. — A. Dickson in 

 Adaiisonia, iv. 193, 200. 



" 1. Ilolopelaliim (DC). Petals entire or oinar- 

 ginate leaves dentate or crenulate. — 2. Udonlo- 

 petalum (B. H..). Petals dentiitc. Leaves lobed 

 or multifid. Sarcocuulon (DC. Prodr. i. 638). 



