KroiHum.] XXVIII. GREANIACE/T:. 170 



flowers. Sepals pointed, about the length of the obovate entire petals. 

 Filaments and staminodia lanceolate-subulate. Lobes of the capsule slightly 

 hairy, the beak | to l|in. long.— Nees, in PL Preiss. i. 161 ; Eeichb. I'e. Fl. 

 Germ. v. t. 183. 

 Hab.: Southern Downs country. 



A very common weed in Europe and temperate Asia, and found in many other parts of the 

 world, in many cases introduced, as in several or perhaps all of the Australian localities, but too 

 widely spread now to be omitted from the Flora, even if it be not rarely indigenous.— Benth . 



3. PELARGONIUM, L'H&. 



(Fruit supposed to resemble the head and beak of a stork.) 



Flowers irregular. Sepals 5, shortly united at the base and produced into 

 a tube or spur, adnate to the pedicel. Petals 5 or fewer, the 2 upper ones 

 different from the others (usually larger), and inserted on the sides of or behind 

 the spur. Disk without glands. Stamens usually 10, hypogynous, shortly united, 

 5 to 7 or rarely only 2 or 8 bearing anthers, the remainder without anthers or 

 rudimentary. Ovary and fruit of Erodium. Cotyledons fiat or folded. — Herbs, 

 undershrubs, or shrubs. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, entire, toothed, 

 lobed, or variously divided. Peduncles usually axillary, bearing an umbel of 

 several Howers. 



A very large genus, but which, with the exception of 3 N. African or Levant species and the 2 

 Australian ones, is confined to S. Africa. — Benth. 



1. P. australe (Australian), Willd.; DC. Prod. i. 654; Benth. Fl. Aimtr. i. 

 298. Herbaceous, often flowering the first year, but forming a perennial root- 

 stock, either horizontal and almost creeping, or short and thick. Leafy stems 

 decumbent or erect, sometimes short, but usually attaining 1ft. or more, 

 generally pubescent or hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves reniform-cordate, or 

 very rarely broadly ovate-cordate, crenate, or very shortly lobed, very obtuse, 

 rarely 2in. diameter, and usually much smaller, softly pubescent or hirsute. 

 Stipules broad. Peduncles usually longer than the leaves, but not so long as in 

 P. Rodneyanmn, and sometimes very short. Flowers small, in an umbel, some- 

 times very dense, almost reduced to a head, sometimes loose with pedicels of fin. 

 or more. Sepals acute, 2 to 3 lines long, usually very hairy, the decurrent tube 

 rarely so long, and sometimes very short. Petals from a little longer than the 

 sepals to about half as long again. Capsule-lobes pubescent, the beak from 

 f to fin. long, the awns of the lobes bearded inside' as in Erodiwm. Seeds 

 smooth.— Sweet, Geran. t. 68 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 57 ; F. v. M. PI. Vict. i. 

 170 ; P. glomeratum, Jacq.; DC. Prod. i. 659 ; P. inodorum, Willd.; DC. I.e.; 

 Sweet, Geran. t. 56 ; P. littorale, Hueg. Bot. Arch. t. 5 ; P. crinitim, Nees, in 

 PL Preiss. i. 168 ; P. stenantlmm, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1858, i. 149 ; P. Drmii- 

 mondi, Turcz. I.e. 421 (a robust form with large flowers). 



Hab.: Stanthorpe, on rocks. 



4. OXALIS, Linn. 



(From oxys, sharp, the plants being very acid.) 



Flowers regular. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Disk without glands. Stamens 10, 

 free or united at the base, all bearing anthers. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-eelled, without 

 any beak or with a very short one ; styles 5, with terminal stigmas, capitate or 

 lobed ; ovules 1,2, or several in each cell. Capsule opening loculicidally, the 

 valves persistent on the axis. Seeds with an outer fleshy coating, opening 

 elastioally, with the appearance of an arillus ; testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; 



