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Qeranium. 

 Andrcecium and pistil (mag.). 



Eivdium cicutaHum. 

 Flower without corolla (mag,). 



Monsonia, 

 Bundle of three 



Erodium cicutaHum, 



Erodium. Pistil (mag.). 



Monsonia, Diagram, 



Calyx S-merous, imbricate. Petals hypogynous, cesUvation contorted. Stamens 

 hypogynous, usually twice the number of the petals. Caepels 5, cohering by their 

 inner edges into a 6-celled ovary prolonged into a beak; cells 2-ovuledi Fruit a 

 capsule, opening elastically from below upwards. Seeds exalbuminous. Embeto 

 curved; cotyledons folded or coiled. — Leaves stipulate. 



Hekbs or TJNDEESHEUBS, sometimes fleshy {Pelargonium,, Sarcocaulon). Lower 

 LEAVES opposite ; upper alternate or opposite, petiolate, simple, usually palminerved 

 and with palmate divisions, rarely pinnatisect, sometimes entire or crenulate; 

 stipules twin at the base of the petioles, foliaceous or scarious. Flowees ^ , regular 

 or irregular (Pelargonium), rarely solitary, usually in pairs or involucrate umbels"; 

 peduncles opposite to the alternate leaves, or axillary in one of a pair of opposite 

 leaves, or in the fork of a branch, sometimes radical. Calyx free, persistent, 5' 



