432 XXXII. GERANiACE^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Geranium. 



Temperate Western Himalayas, Kashmir, Jacquemont ; Kishtwak, alt. 8000 ft., 

 T. Thomson. 



i?o«tetoc/c tuberous. Flowering stems 12-18 in. high, slender, simple or subumhel- 

 lately branched. Leaves lJ-3 in. diam., segments very spreading, radical on very long 

 slender petioles; stipules variable. Irijiorescence subumbelled, with an involucre of 

 shortly petinled leaves : peduncles and pedicels erect, clothed with long spreading glan- 

 dular hairs ; bracts leafy, pinnatifid. Flowers 1 in. diam. Sepals elliptic, snjall, 

 obtuse, apiculate, narrowly margined. Petals large, obcordate, ciliate at the very 

 base. Filaments very slender throughout their length. Fruit 1^-14 in., erect, hairy ; 

 carpels not wrinkled ; styles very short. Seeds smooth . — There is no trace of the beaks 

 being separable from the axis, though the valves are removable. —A very curious 

 epecies. 



** Annual, ^flowers small, in axMary peduncles, fruiting pedicels defleoced. 



13. G. pusillum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 642 ; prostrate, very slender, 

 nmch branched, pubescent, leaves reniform-orbicular deeply 5-9-lobed or 

 partite segments cuneate 3-lobed, petals obcordate scarcely exceeding 

 the mucronate sepals, carpels smooth, seeds smootli. Boiss. Fl. Orient. 



i. 881. '* 



Western Temperate Himalaya ; E ashmie. Falconer ; Kishtwab, alt. 8000 ft., 

 /. Thomson. — Distuib. Syria and throughout Europe. 



Very slender and much branched, leaty, slightly glandular above. Leaves 4-1 in. 

 diam; stipules short. Flowers ^ in. diam., blue-purple, very small. Petals and i''i7a- 

 mrais ciliate at the base, i^rm'i ^ in. long. CajyeZs smooth, hairy. jSlsetfo very minutely 

 granulate. 



14. Cr. rotundifolium, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 643 ; suberect with very 

 slender spreading branches, glandular-hairy, leaves reniform 7-fid seg- 

 ments broad obtusely lobulate, petals cuneate entire exceeding the calyx, 

 carpels smooth, seeds deeply pitted. Boiss. Fl. Orient i. 880. G. poten- 

 tilloides, Klotzschin Reise Pr. Waldem. 123, t. 17. 



Pakjab at Peshawar, Vicary ; and Hooshiarpore, Aitcheson; Western Temperate 

 Himalaya, alt. 6-9000 ft. ; Kashmir, Falconer; Jamu, Thomson; Garwhal, alt. 2000 

 ft., Strach. & Winter. — Distrib. Siberia and Eastward to Europe and N. Africa. 



Very slender. Leaves ^-1\ in. diam. ; petioles very slender. Flowers ^ in. diam. 

 Petals red, glabrous. Fruit § in. long. 



15. G. moUe, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 643 ; stems rather stout difiFiise or 

 ascending softly villous and glandular, leaves orbicular palmately 7-9-fid, 

 lobes cuneate obtusely lobulated, petals obcordate exceeding the sepals, 

 carpels obliquely wrinkled, seeds smooth. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 882. 



Temperate Western Himalaya; Kishtwae, 6-9000 ft., Thomson; Kumaon, alt. 

 1500 It., Madden. — Uistkib. Westward to Europe and N. Africa. 



A common European weed, possibly introduced into India, but also found in Affgha- 

 histan and Persia ; more robust than the two preceding species, readily distinguished 

 by the wiinkled carpels, smooth seeds, purple petals ciliate at the base, and glabrous 

 filaments. 



Sect. 4. Peduncles 2-flowered. Flower-huds pyramidal. Sepals broad or 

 cordate at the base, acuminate, not abruptly awned. — Annual or biennial. 



16. G. Robertlanum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. i. 644; erect, much 

 branched, pubescent or hairy, leaves triangular-oblong, 5-foliolate or 

 tematisect segments incised or pinnatifid, peduncles slender, pedicels 

 spreading, petals twice as long as the sepals clawed, carpels wrinkled 



