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oval and parallel-nerved leaves, all of which are alternate; and the 

 peduncles in some of them bear many-flowered cymes. The flowers 

 and fruit, however, are just those of true Geraniums, except, perhaps, 

 that the filaments are very slightly, if at all, united at the base. 

 Their aspect, although peculiar, would lead one to refer them to 

 Pelargonium rather than to Geranium: but their flowers are perfectly 

 regular (except in Q. arboreum) and symmetrical, and there is no trace 

 of a spur or other downward prolongation of the calyx. — The first 

 species, G. midtiflorum, shows least of the peculiarities of the section 

 in its foliage, which is thin, and with the nerves more branched and 

 inosculating towards their summit than in the succeeding species. 

 Its branches, moreover, are scarcely woody. 



7. Geranium multiflorum, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 29.) 



G. fruticosum? rnolliter pubescens; foliis membranaceis obovato-rotun- 

 datis grosse dentatis (basi subcuneata integerrima) utrinque viridibus; 

 pecluncidis elongatis cymam laxam midtiftoram gerentibus ; sepalis 

 mucronatis. 



Hab. District of Waimea, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands. 



The specimen is a single branch; and the notes upon the plant do 

 not record the height which it attains, nor whether the stem is 

 woody. But it probably is so, as the branch, although fistulous, is 

 somewhat lignescent. It appears to have been broken from a decum- 

 bent stem. The young branchlets, peduncles, leaves, &c, are softly 

 pubescent with fine and mostly spreading hairs ; which on the young 

 leaves are somewhat silky. Leaves alternate, approximate, membra- 

 naceous in texture, roundish-obovate, an inch and a half long, by an 

 inch or more in width, coarsely toothed, except the more or less cuneate 

 base, which is entire, green on both sides, 7-9-nerved from the base ; 

 the nerves more or less forked, and connected by anastomosing vein- 

 lets. Petioles about half an inch long, pubescent, terete. Stipules 

 setaceous-subulate from a dilated and connate-clasping base, minutely 

 hairy or ciliate, scarious, brownish, 4 or 5 lines long ; their bases only 

 adnate to the base of the petiole. Peduncle becoming lateral by the 

 evolution of a branch, elongated (3 inches in length), bibracteolate in 





