Uefugium Botan icum . ] 
[MarcK 1871. 
TAB. 241. 
Natural Order Geraniace^. 
Tribe Pelargonie^. 
Genus Pelargonium, L'Herit 
Section Polyactium. 
P. TESTACEUM (E. Meyer in Herb. Drege, No. 7507). Caule perbrevi 
vel subnullo, stipulis deltoideis, foliis petiolatis plerisque radi- 
calibus rotundato-cordatis pinnatifidis berbaceis utrinque viridibus 
tenuiter griseo-piibescentibus, lobis contiguis obtusis dentatis, um- 
bellis 8 — 19 floris, bracteis linearibus parvis, pedicellis puberulis 
calyce 4 — 6-plo longioribus, sepalis linearibus albo-marginatis, 
petalis obovatis calyce duplo excedentibus, lateralibiis angustioribus, 
superioribus testaceis. — P. j^ulverulentum, Harv. FL Cap. i. 272, 
ex parte. 
A native of the Cape, gathered by Mr. Cooper. 
Root large, tuberous. Stem none or very short, erect, annual, 
pubescent. Bracts scariose, deltoid, two lines long. Leaves 
herbaceous in texture, rotundato-cordate, measuring three inches 
each way when fully developed, blunt, pinnatifid half or a third 
of the way down to the midrib, with contiguous toothed lobes ; 
the upper surface pale green, inconspicuously hairy ; the lower 
surface paler and rather more hairy. Scape six to nine inches 
long, erect, slender, thinly clothed with spreading gray silky 
hairs. Umbel 8- to 12-fiowered, subtended by a whorl of scariose 
linear bracts two to three lines long. Pedicel, including the 
calyx-spur, twelve to eighteen lines long. Calyx-lobes linear, 
three lines long, finely pubescent on the back, cihated on the 
edge, and furnished with a distinct white membranous border. 
Petals obovate, twice as long as the calyx, the lateral pair 
narrower than the other three, the two upper ones brick-red, the 
others nearly w4iite. Fertile anthers six. 
Tab. 241. — 1, calyx with stamens and pistil; 2, single petal: both 
magnified. — J. G. B. 
This dwarf species of Pelargonium was sent to me by Mr. 
Thos. Cooper from South Africa. It requires the protection of 
a warm greenhouse during the winter, and may be placed in the 
open air in the summer months, if protected from heavy rains. 
It will grow freely in a mixture of sandy loam and leaf-mould 
well drained, and watered but little during the season of rest. — 
w. w. s. 
