^Oeeanium.] GEBANIACEM. 129 



Flowers regular. 



Petals imbricate, alternating with the glands 

 of the disk ; fruit of 6 cocci. 



Stamens 15, connate below . . . , 1. MoNSONiA. 

 Stamens 10, distinct . , . . , 2. Geranium. 

 Petals contorted, glands 0. 

 Fruit a capsule— Herbs. 



Leaves 3-foliolate 3. Oxalis. 



Leaves pinnate ..... 4. Biophyttjm. 



Fruit a berry — Trees 5. Avebrhoa. 



"Flowers irregular 6. Impatiens. 



1. MONSONIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i, 427. 



Herbs or undershrabs. Leaves opposite or alternate, stipulate. 

 Peduncles axillary, bracteate. Floivers solitary or in umbels. 

 Sepals Q,ndi petals 5, imbricate, the latter alternating with 5 small 

 glands. Stamens 15, all bearing anthers, connate below, 5 of them 

 'larger and alternate with the petals. Qvari/ 5-iobed and 5-celled, 

 beaked ; beak ending in the style and bearing 5 linear branches in- 

 wardly stigmato^e ; ovules 2, supei-posed in each cell. Capsule 

 with a very long beak of five 1- seeded carpels. Carpels with 5 elastic 

 tails which are bearded on the inner side and separate from the beak. 

 Seeds cxalbuminous. — Species 12, nearly all of which are found ic 

 Africa. 



M. senegalensis, Quill. Sf Perr. Fl. Seneg. Tent, i, 131 ; D. & G. 

 'Bomb. Fl. 41 ; F. B. I. i, 427. Erodium chumbalense, Murno in text Wight 

 Ic. 1014. 



A viscid diffuse annual or undershrub. iea-yes |-H', in., long-stalked 

 ovate or cordate, obtuse or mucronate, repand-toothed, smooth above, 

 hairy beneath ; stipules subulate. Pedimcles long, sharply deflexed at 

 the bracteoles, rarely 2-flowered. Sepcds'ohoYSbte, awned, densely pubes- 

 cent. Petals violet or pink, scarcely exceeding- the sepals. Filaments 

 ■ciliate. Carpels stipitate, wrinkled near the top, roughly hairy ; beak 3 

 in. long. 



"Chambal ravines near Agra (Munro),Merwara (A.E, Lowrie). Distrib. : 

 Sindh, Deccan, Baluchistan ; also in Arabia, and westward to Senegambia 

 and Namaqualand. 



2. GERANIUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 428. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, stipulate 

 Peduncles axillary, bracteate, 1-2-flowered, or pedicels umbelled 



