Erodinm.] xxxii. gekaniace^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 435 



eisceeding the sepals. Ovary^ silky. Carpels brown, stipitate, with stiff white hairs, 

 split on the back ; beak J-1 in. long, 3-4 times the length of the cell, rough on the 

 (inter side, in the inner side with long brown hairs and a few setse, hairy to the tip. — ■ 

 This resembles £. chium and wgyptiacum, which differ in their muoronate sepals. 



5. E. xnalacoides, WUld. ; DG. Prodr. i. 648 ; anuual, leaves 3-fid or 

 lacerate shortly pubescent, sepals awned, carpels pitted below the beak. 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 893. 



Panjab, Falconer ; Indus Valley at Attok, Peshawur, and Hazara, Stewart. — 

 DjSTKiB. Westward to S. Europe and K. Africa. 



Softly hairy, hairs on the stem deflexed. Stems erect or diffuse, elongate, 

 branched. Leaves ovate- oblong, acute or obtuse, shortly appressed-pubescent, lower 

 cordate ; stipules large, scarious, acute or obtuse. Infioreseenee glandular ; peduncles 

 3-many-flo_wered ; bracts ovate, scarious, oiliate. Sepals membranous, two outer 5- 

 and three inner 3-nerved, awn bairy. Petals ciliate at the base, obovate, lilac, 9-nerved. 

 Filaments glabrous, lanceolate. Staminodes linear. Ovary hairy. Carpels stipitate, 

 .S-gonous, Ketose ; beak 4-5 times as long as the cell, with stiff brown hairs for \ of its 

 length ; pits with a deep fold. 



** Beak of carpels plumose on the ventral face, with long soft cilia. 



6. E. stipaceuiu, Edgew. ; hoary, annual, leaves oblong crenate- 

 toothed lobed or vmequaUy pinnatifid, sepals silkily hoary apiculate, fila- 

 ments cUiate 5 inner the broadest, carpels slender hispid with transverse 

 wrinkles at the tip of the valves, beak very long. 



Westekn Tibet? Vigne {Serb. Falconer); Panjab beyond the Indus in Bannu 

 Stewart. 



Moot woody, but apparently annual ; branches straggling. Leaves ^-1 in., variable in 

 shape, oblong or linear-oblong ; petiole slender. Peduncles several-flowered ; pedicels 

 short. Flowers ^ in. dinm. Sepals concave, strongly 3-nerved. Petals narrow-cuneate, 

 fiqualliug the sepals. Filaments subulate, ciliate, the inner series much the largest and 

 broadest. Fruit 3-4 in., slender, erect ; carpels slender, narrowed into a stipes, terete, 

 transversely grooved at the base of the beak, covered with stiff hairs with swollen 

 bases, beaks membranous, silky, hairs fulvous. — A very close ally of Monsonia hetero- 

 tricha, notwithstanding the different stamens. 



DOUBTFDL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



E. vioi..fiFOLinM, Turz. Mosc. Bull, xxxvi. i. 592. " Caespitos'?, diffuse, pilose, 

 leaves petiolate cordate obtuse sinuate-lobate crenate, with scattered adpressed hairs, 

 peduncles 3-5-flowered, calyx aristate, fruit densely hairy." — Western Peninsula, Pe.r- 

 rotet. " Eoot fibrous, stalk 4-5 in. long, arista not plumose when young." — Speci- 

 mens not seen, only known from the above (? Monsonia senegdlensis). 



E. NiLAGiHicuM, Schlecht. Serb. Lnd. Or. 1560, is an introduced Cape Pelargo- 

 nium (P. grossularioides). 



5. OXAIiXS, Linn. 



Acid herbs, rarely shrubby. Leaves radical or alternate, stipulate or ex- 

 stipulate, compound, usually 3-foliolate. Flowers on axillary 1- or more- 

 flowered peduncles, regular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, 

 contorted. Glands of the disk 0. Stamens 10, free or united at the base, 

 alt anther-bearing. Ovary 5-lobed, 6-celled ; styles 5, distinct, stigma ter- 

 minal capitate 2-fid or laciniate ; ovules 1 or more in each cell. Capsule- 

 with loculicidal dehiscence, valves persistent to the axis. Seeds with an outer 

 fleshy coat which bursts elastically, testa crnstaceous, albumen fleshy; 

 embryo straight.— Distrib. Species about 200, chiefly tropical and temperate 

 S. American and S. African. 



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