

GE.RANIACE ,E. 399 



Hab. Banos, Andes of Peru. (Also (not in flower), island of San 

 Lorenzo, near Callao). 



This species has been collected in Peru by Matthews, M'Lean, &c, 

 and near Quito by Jameson and Hall. If the specimen from the 

 island of San Lorenzo truly belongs to the species, it has a thick and 

 fleshy, fusiform, perennial root. The leaves are softly hairy, above 

 as well as below. On small specimens and on ultimate branches they 

 are as small as described by Kunth (7 or 8 lines broad) ; but the 

 larger ones are an inch in diameter. Only the lower peduncles are 

 shorter than the petioles; the upper are longer than the leaves. 

 Petals 3 or 4 lines long, exceeding the calyx. Carpels sparingly 

 pubescent. Seed smooth and even, or more obscurely reticulated 

 under a lens than in Q. dissectum. From the character, it would 

 seem that G. Berterianurn of Colla may be tbe same plant. 



4. Geranium sessiliflorum, €av. 



Geranium sessiliflorum, Cav. Diss. 4, p. 198, t. 77; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 639; Walp. Bel. 

 Meyen. p. 315; Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 252. 



Hab. Obrajillo, Banos, and Alpamarca, Andes of Peru. (Also 

 gathered by M'Lean and Matthews, fide herb. Hook.) 



5. Geranium crassipes, Hook, in Herb. 



G. nanum, ccespitoswm, acaule ; caudice crusso multicipite stipidis imbri- 

 catis obtecto; foliis cum petiolis imdique cano-sericeis h—1-partitis, 

 segmentis oblong is obovatisve confertis integerrimis vel bilobatis ; pedun- 

 culis brevissimis unifloris ; sepalis sericeis muticis; coccis pubescen- 

 tibus ; seminibus Icevibus. 



Hab. Obrajillo, Andes of Peru. (Cerro Pasco, Matthews, in herb. 

 Hook.) 



Plant dwarf and stemless, forming dense crespitose tufts, of about an 

 inch in height; the caudex thick, branching, the upper part clothed 



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