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MONSONIA pilosa. 
Hairy Monsonia. 
M. jnlosa^ foliis quinquepartito-palmatis : laciniis tri- 
partito-pmnatifidis: subtus petiolisque pilosis. De- 
tails dentatis. Willdm. enum. 2. 717. ^ 
Monsonia pilosa. Hart. suh. land. p. 153. Link enum. 
2. p. 199. 
Monsonia Filia. Andrews's hot. rep. 276, nec aliorum. 
Geranium Monsonia. Thunherg. 
'S^em sufFruticose, branching; branches strafffflinff 
slender, thickly clothed with long white spreading 
hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves 
palmately 5-parted or pinnatifid, smooth and shining 
on the upper side and hairy underneath ; segments 3- 
parted, pinnatifid or deeply divided, bluntish, fringed. 
Feholes long and slender, with two subulate, mem- 
branaceous, fringed stipules attached to their base 
Peduncle 1-flowered, longer than the leaves. Involucre 
of several linear, taper-pointed, fringed bractes, about 
half way up the peduncle. Calyx of 5 sepals; sepals 
lanceolate, bluntish, with membranaceous margins 
FetaU 5, obovate, deeply toothed with five large un- 
equal teeth, of a pale cream-colour, tinged with red 
near the base and at the back : unguis hairy on the 
mside. Stamens 15, in five sets, all united at the base • 
anthers incumbent : pollen orange-coloured. Germens 
villous: anstce hairy. Stigmas 5, blunt, dark purple, 
slightly reflexed. ^ ^ 
This handsome species is generally known by the 
name of M, Filia in the gardens, but it is very dif- 
