Geranium.] xxxil. GEHANiACEiB. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 49^ 



dular-hairy, marsins broad, awn stout. Petals twice as long as the sepals, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, white, 5-nerved, villous on each side at the base. Filaments gradually 

 nai-rowed upwards. Ovary tomentose. Fruit not seen. — A very curious species, allied 

 to the N. American O. Bichardsoni. 



if Petals spreading. 



2. C pratense, Linn. ; DO. Prodr. i. 641 ; stout, erect, branched, 

 hairs spreading, leaves orbicular 7-9-partite segments acute incised, stipules 

 subulate-lanceolate, pedicels glandular-hairy, sepals long-awned, bracts 

 subulate, filaments ciliate. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 877. G. himalayense, 

 Klotisch in Jteise Print. Waldem. 116, t. 122; Walp. Ann. vii. 485. 



Wbstben temperate Himalaya ; Kashmir, Falconer ; Kulhara in Gakwhal, alt. 

 10,500 ft., Strach. & Winter. ; Piti, alt. 7-8000 ft., T. Thomson ; Western Tibet ; 

 Sakh river, alt. 14,000 ft., Stracli. & Winter. — Distrib. N. Asia, and westwards to 

 Europe. 



Stem 2-4 ft. high, usually stout, hairs on branches and petioles- often reflexed. 

 £eo«es 2-3 in. diam., variously cut; stipules usually small. Peduncles and refracted 

 pedicels densely hairy and glandular; bracts small and slender. Flowers 14-2 in. diam., 

 blue-purple. Petals entire or notched, ciliate at the base. Filaments gradually nar- 

 rowed upwards. Carpels glandular-hairy. Seeds reticulate. 



3. G. rectum, Traviv. ; Walp. Ann. vii. 485 ; very slender, tall, sub- 

 simple, sparingly leafy and hairy, leaves opposite 5-angled 7-lobed to below 

 the middle membranous segments rhomboid acute and acutely incised, 

 stipules subulate-lanceolate, peduncles, very long and slenderly appresseJ- 

 pubescent, bracts subulate, sepals long awned, filaments ciliate. 



Kashmir, Fcdconer ; in Baltal, T Thomson. — Disteib. Soongaria. 



Stem 2 feet, very slender, apparently ribbed, almost glabrous. Leaves 3-4 in. diam., 

 membranous, sparingly pilose on both surfaces, radical petioles very long and slender. 

 Peduncles sometimes 8 in. ; pedicels very variable ; bracts subulate. Flower 1| in, 

 diam. Sepals membranous, glabrafe, narrow-oblong with a stout awn. Petals obovate, 

 reiuse, ciliate at the very base. Filaments gradually narrowed upwards. Carpels (not 

 seen in Indian specimens) smooth, appressed-pubescent. Seeds smooth. — Siberian 

 (Alatau Mts.) specimens are described as having erect fiuiting peduncles and presenting 

 two varieties, one glabrous, the other villous with white hairs. It differs from G. 

 nodosum in the stems not being swollen at the nodes and in the entire petals. Fal- 

 coner's is a single rather doubtful specimen, mixed with G. Wallichiamim,, 



4. 6. aconitlfolium, L'Herii.; DO. Prodr. i. 642; very slender, 

 sparingly pubescent, much branched, leaves deeply 3-9-partite segments 

 acute deeply laciniate or pinnatifid upper sessile, stipules small subulate, 

 pedicels and long-awned sepals usually glandular hairy, filaments ciliate. 



Western Tibet, Falconer (^Keia Distrib. 328). — Distrib. Alps of Switzerland and 

 N. Italy. 



iStems slender, 1-2 ft., very sparingly hairy. Leaves 2-2^ in. diam. ; segments nar- 

 row, acute or obtuse ; upper leaves sessile with the radiating lobes giving a peculiar 

 appearance to the plant. Peduncles variable in length, pedicels usually clothed with 

 spreading glandular hairs, but sometimes merely pubescent ; bracts subulate, very 

 slender. Flowers smaller than in the other species of this group, l-lj in. diam. 

 Sepah rather broad. Petals obovate, rounded at the tip, glabrous. Filaments suddenly 

 dilated at the base. Friiit 1 in., nearly glabrous. Seeds' smooth, opaque. — Apparently 

 the same as the European species, in which the peduncles and pedicel and calyx are 

 eglandular, which is rarely the case in the Tibetan spocimens. 



5. G. coUlnum, M. Bieh. ; DO. Prodr. i. 642 ; stem usually short hoary 

 or glandular pubescent, leaves orbicular 5-7-lobed to below the middle 



