Geranium.] xxxii. gehaniace^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 433 



keeled, seeds punctulate. Boiss. M. Orient, i. 883. G. Lindlevanum. 

 Boyle III. 161, t. 27. ^ 



Western Temperate Himalaya, alt. 6-8000 ft., fi-om Kashmir, Falconer, to Gaewhal, 

 Strach. a; Winter. — DiaTEiB. Siberia, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Europe. 



A reddish fetid rather succulent annua] or biennial. Branchen 6-18 in., brittle, 

 leafy. Leaves 1-3 in. broad; petiole lonR ; stipules ovate. Flowen { in. diam., 

 streaked with dark and light red. Petals narrow, claw glabrous. Fruit f-l in. ; 

 beak of carpels separating upwards from the axis and attached to its apex bv silky 

 hairs.— " Herb. Eobert." ^ ' ' 



17. G. lucldum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 644 ; annual, glabrous, shining, 

 leaves orbicular 5-7-lobed lobes 5-fid cuneate, pedicels with a series of 

 hairs, sepals long-awned shorter than the spathulate petals, carpels reti- 

 culate keeled nearly glabrous, seeds smooth. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 884. G. 

 Ijevigatum, Eoyle III. 150. 



Temperate Western Himalaya ; from Kishtwar to Kumaon, alt. 6-9000 ft. — Disteib. 

 Siberia, Syria, the Caucasus, Europe, N. Africa. 



A suberect, much-branched, brittle herb, with usually bright red branches. Leaves 

 l-l\ in. diam., lobes short broad ; stipules acute. Peduncles longer than the petioles. 

 Flowers J-J in. diam. Sepals wrinkled. Petals rose-red, claw glabrous. Fruil J in., 

 glabrous, beak very slender; carpels small, separating both from their beak and 

 the axis. 



18. G. oceUatuxn, Gamh. in Jacq. Toy. Bot. 33, t. 38 ; annual, hoary- 

 pubescent or hairy and glandular, excessively branched, prostrate, slender, 

 leaves orbicular 5-7-lobed lobes cuneate 3-5-fid, petals large broadly 

 obcordate much larger than the acuminate sepals, carpels corrugated, seeds 

 smooth. Walp. Ann. i. 449. G. bicolor, and G. choorense, Eoyle III. 

 149, 150; Wcdl.Cat. 8562. 



Hills of the Panjab; temperate and subtropical Himalaya, alt. 1-60OO ft., from 

 KASHMrB and the Salt Eange to B. Nipal ; Behae, on the top of Parusnath, 

 Anderson. 



A small straggling species. Leaves 4-2 in. diam. Peduncles sometimes clustered, 

 and subumbclled as in G. Tuheraria, at others axillary solitary and l-flowerid. Flowers 

 f in. diam., rose-coloured with a dark purple eye. Sepals rigid after flowering, 

 wrinkled from pressure against the carpels. Fruit erect, | in. long; carpels small, 

 separating from the axis and beak, which latter eventually coils up elastically. Seeds 

 shining, pale. — Found in E. Nipal (Tambur river), but not hitherto in Sikkim. 



DOnBTFnL AND UNKKOWH SPECIES. 



G. HETEEOTEicHos, Sm, ; Boyle III. 150. 



G. PEDnsonLATUM, Boyle, I.e. — Of this and the preceding species no information is 

 given by Eoyle ; Smith has nowhere described a O. heterotrichon. 



4. ERODXtrnZ, L'Herit. 



Herbs, rarely undershrubs, with the branches swollen or jointed at the 

 nodes. Leaves opposite, often alternately smaller, stipulate. Flowers 

 usually regular, in axUlary 1-flowered or umbelliferous peduncles. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, with alternating glands. Stamens 5, 

 alternating with 5 statnmodes. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled, long-beaked ; 

 styles 5, stigmatose longitudinally; ovules 2, superposed in each cell. 

 Capsule 5-lobed 5-celled, cells 1-seeded; carpels indehiscent, separating 

 septifragally from the axis, their beaks elastically coiling upwards from the 

 base to the apex of the axis, hairy on the inner surface, each with usually , 



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