NO. 5 NEW EAST AFRICAN PLANTS STANDLEY 7 



Plants erect, f ruticose at the base, sparsely branched, the branches 

 erect or strongly ascending, stout, striate, densely short-pilose with 

 fulvous or brown hairs ; stipules lanceolate, 2-4 mm. long, brown, 

 densely pilose-sericeous outside ; leaves simple, the petioles very 

 stout, about 2 mm. long ; leaf blades ovate-oval or broadly oblong- 

 ovate, 2.5-4 cm. long, 1.6-2.8 cm. wide, subcordate at the base, 

 rounded or broadly obtuse at the apex, subcoriaceous, rugulose on 

 the upper surface and thinly sericeous with short hairs, sericeous 

 beneath with short fulvous hairs, very prominently veined beneath, 

 the lateral veins about 5 on each side, the secondary veins coarse, 

 closely reticulate ; flowers in short axillary racemes and in dense 

 terminal racemes up to 5 cm. long ; bracts ovate or lanceolate, 3 to 4 

 mm. long, densely pilose ; pedicels 2 to 8 mm. long ; corolla not 

 seen ; calyx 8 to 10 mm. long, the tube very short, the lobes linear, 

 attenuate, pilose-sericeous outside ; legume about 2 cm. long, 7-8 

 mm. wide, obtuse or acute, mucronate, 2-seeded, densely pilose 

 with long brown hairs ; seeds 3.5-4 mm. long, finely spotted with 

 brown and black. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 631 103, collected 

 between Thika and Fort Hall, British East Africa, altitude 1.200 

 to 1,500 meters, September 3 to 9, 1909, by E. A. Mearns (no. 

 1067). 



Distinguished from the other African species with simple leaves 

 by the broad, coriaceous, reticulate-veined leaf blades. 



GERANIUM KENIENSE Standley, sp. nov. 



Caules graciles, procumbentes, dense et minute viscido-puberuli ; 

 folia opposita petiolata, laminis angulata-orbicularibus 5-7-lobatis, 

 lobis late cuneatis 5-dentatis, minute puberulis et sparse setoso- 

 pilosis ; pedunculi i-flori; sepala anguste oblonga vel lanceolato- 

 oblonga, acuminata ; petala late obovata purpurascentia ; fructuus 

 rostrum breviter hirtellum, valvulis hirsutis. 



Stems slender, procumbent, 20-30 cm. long, densely and minutely 

 viscid-puberulent, the intemodes 3.5-9 cm. long ; cauline leaves 

 opposite, the slender petioles 3.5-12 cm. long, minutely viscid- 

 puberulent and sparsely pilose ; leaf blades angulate-orbicular, 2.5-4 

 cm. broad, 5-7-lobed two-thirds the distance to the base, the lobes 

 broadly cuneate, usually 5-dentate, the teeth oval-oblong or ovate, 

 obtuse or acutish, the blades rather firm, minutely puberulent and 

 sparsely setose-pilose with appressed hairs ; stipules oval-ovate. 



