310 PHANEROGAM! A. 



with the large and scarious, dark chestnut-coloured imbricated stipules, 

 which are adnate to the base of the petioles. Leaves much crowded, 

 canescently-silhy all over, as well as the petioles, roundish in outline, 

 5-7 -parted \; the segments oblong or narrowly obovate, acute, not over 3 

 lines in length, crowded, entire, or sometimes, especially the middle 

 one, two-lobed. Peduncles one-flowered, shorter than the leaves, among 

 which they are partly hidden, silky-tome ntose. Calyx in fruit as 

 long as the peduncle ; the sepals silky like the leaves, oblong-ovate, 

 rather obtuse, pointless, nearly 3 lines long. Petals not seen. The 

 persistent filaments nearly distinct, subulate from a broad base, as 

 long as the calyx, a little hairy externally. Beak of the fruit 5 lines 

 long, canescently pubescent, as are the carpels. Seeds with a smooth 

 and even testa. 



In the Peruvian and Quitensian Andes, there are some other, still 

 undescribed species, allied to this, which I have not the means of 

 elucidating. 



6. Geranium multipartitum, Benth.f 



Geranium miiltipartitum } ~Benih. PI. Hartw. p. 166? 



Hab. Obrajillo ; with the preceding species. 



This species differs from the foregoing principally in its finer, but 

 still canescent pubescence, its narrower stipules, and longer petioles, 

 the segments of the leaves again 2-5-cleft or parted ; the sepals nar- 

 rower and less hairy. The single small specimen, is in fruit. 



§ 2. NEUROPHYLLODES. — Frutices vel arbuseulcp, San'dw icenses.; pedunculis serpc 

 multifioris ; staminibus omnino vel fere discretis ; foliis omnibus alternis cuncatis ovali- 

 busve nervosUl 



A remarkable group of plants, peculiar to the Sandwich Islands, 

 whence we have four species, only one of which has been published. 

 They are all shrubby plants, except possibly the first, and one of 

 them is truly arborescent, with a trunk of three inches or more in 

 diameter! They are further remarkable for their wedge-shaped or 



