82 XIII. GEEANIAGEAE. [Pelargonium. 



-E. cicutarium, L'Herit. ex Ait. Hort. Keiu. ed. 1, ii. 414. Stems 6in.-24in. 

 high, procumbent or suberect ; whole plant more or less hairy. Leaves pinnate 

 or 2-pinnate ; leaflets sessile, deeply toothed or lobed or cut into narrow segments. 

 Stipules lanceolate. Flowers in 3-'5-flowered umbels. Filaments of perfect anthers, 

 nob toothed below. Carpels hairy ; apical pit eglandular, with a concentric furrow 

 beneath. 



Var. pllosum. Peduncles greatly exceeding the leaves, pilose. Leaflets deeply pinnatifid or 

 almost pinnate. Upper petals not spotted. Carpels not furrowed. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands ; STEWART Island; CHATHAM Islands : abundantly natural- 

 ised. Stprk's-bill. Sept. to March. Europe, North and East Africa, &o. 



2. PELARGONIUM, L'Herit. 



Flowers irregular. Sepals 5^ slightly coherent at the base and produced 



into a spur adnate with the pedicel. Petals 5 or fewer^ the two upper larger 



than the lower. Disk with 5 glands. Stamens 10, of which 3 or 5 only are 



fertile, slightly coherent at the base. Ovary and fruit as in Erodium. Herbs 



or under-shrubs, with opposite or alternate simple or divided stipulate leaves. 



Flowers in umbels on naked axillary peduncles. 



Species, about 180. All restricted to South Africa except 3 in North Africa and the Levant, 

 and 2 others in Australia and New Zealand. 



Leaves cordate or ovate-cordate . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. P. austraU. 



Leaves palmatifidly divided. Segments pinnatifid or toothed . . . . * P. qitercifoliwm. 



Leaves orbioular-reniform, obscurely lobed . . . . . . . . * P. zonale. 



1. P. australe, Jacq., Edog. PL t. 100. Rootstock stout, stems pros- 

 trate or erect, simple or branched, 6in.-18in. high, more or less hairy in all 

 its parts. Leaves on slender petioles much longer than the blade, orbicular- 

 cordate or ovate-cordate, 3— 5-lobed, crenate or serrate. Stipules ovate, acute. 

 Peduncles exceeding the leaves, slender. Umbels 10— 12-fiowered. Pedicels 

 short. Flowers small. Sepals acute, hairy, spur short. Petals about one-third 

 or one-half longer than the sepals, spathulate. Fertile stamens 5, alternating 

 with scale-like staminodes. Carpels hairy, the beaks bearded on the inner face. 

 Seeds minutely punctulate. — Willd., Sp. PI. iii. 675 ; Sweet, Geran. t. 68 ; 

 DC, Prod. i. 654 ; Hook, f., Fl. Tasm. i. 57 ; Benth., Fl. Austr. i. 298 ; F. 

 Muell., PI. Vict. i. 170. P clandestinum, L'Herit. ex A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 

 595 ; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 41. P. australe, var. clandestinum, Hook, f., 

 Handbk. 298. P. glomeratum, Jacq. DC, Prod. i. 659. P. Acugnaticum, 

 Thou., Fl. Tristan d'Acugn. 44, t. 13. Geranium amaenum, Banks and Sol., 

 MSS. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands ; STEWART Island ; CHATHAM Islands : common. Also in 

 Tristan d'Aounha and Australia. Kopata. Nov. to Feb. 



P. grossularioides, Ait., of South Africa is doubtless identical, but the leaves are often deeply 

 d,ivided. A decoction of the leaves is used as a lotion for burns, scalds, &c. 



* P. zonale, L'Herit. in Ait. Hort. Keiv. ed. 1, ii. 424. Suffruticose. Stems 

 robust, pubescent or hairy, 2ft.-3ft. high or more. Leaves on long petioles, orbioular- 

 reniform, 3-5-lobed, crenate. Stipules large, apiculate. Peduncles exceeding the 

 leaves. Umbels many-flowered. Petals cuneate, crimson, red, or pink. The leaf- 

 blade has a curved dark-brown band midway between the base and margin. 



