GERANIUM. 
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207 ; Koch 154 ; Bab. 64. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 3 ; r. Bocky 
shady banks in ravines ; Bib. Frio above the fountain and the 
bridge ; B. de Santa Luzia near the waterfall ; Serra d’Agoa along 
the Caminho Central between Pico Grande and the Encumeado. 
April- July. — Boot long slender simple. Whole plant peculiarly 
shining and smooth sprinkled only here and there with a few 
short hairs, brittle and succulent, very apt to become bright red, 
much branched diffusely, knotty at the joints. Cal. large pale gr., 
with 5 winged angles, strongly clathrate across between the 
angles. Sep. rather cuspidate than either awned or mucronate. 
FI. small but pretty ; limb of pet. bright pink or rose with 2 
deeper-col. radiating lines, claw white hairy inside but not 
ciliate at the edges. Carp. 3-5-ribbed lengthways, the ribs 
granulate or rugose; beak short smooth slender, style finely 
pubescent. Seeds even. Cal. after fl. tightly closed, in fr. 
loose, finally spreading. 
5. G. molle L. 
Hairy-pubescent ; st. diffusely spreading or decumbent ; 1. 
mostly alternate roundish-reniform deeply 7-9-fid, the segments 
wedge-shaped rather deeply trifid; pedimc. solitary short re- 
gularly opposite the 1. ; pedic. forked strongly declining in fr. ; 
pet. deeply bifid longer than the cal., claw very short ciliate on 
each side ; carp, smooth closely wrinkled across obliquely all over, 
simply keeled. — Cav. Diss. 4. 203. t. 83. f. 3 ; Desf. ii. 102 ; Brot. 
ii. 72 ; EB. t. 778 ; DC. i. 643 ; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 237 ; WB. i. 21 ; 
Koch 154 ; Bab. 64. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, c ; PS. reg. 
2; a. Boadsides and waste ground about Funchal, Camacha, 
&c. ; Boca das Torrinhas, up the Lombo Grande in the Curral 
das Freiras, about 5000 ft. above the sea. PS. roadside at Cama- 
cha. Febr.-July. — Slightly hoary-green softly pubescent. St. 
clothed with longer, 1. with shorter hairs ; the lower 1. on long 
stalks and sometimes opposite in pairs ; the upper always alter- 
nate. Ped. shorter than the 1. Fl. small cup-shaped f in. diam. 
Pet. with claw in. long, from \ longer to not quite twice the 
length of cal., bright deep reddish-purple. Sep. very shortly 
mucronulate not awned. Cal. not distinctly angular. Carp, 
quite smooth closely and finely wrinkled ; beak very short and 
all over pubescent like the short style. Seeds smooth to the 
naked eye, but under a moderate lens very finely but distinctly 
reticulate-ruyulose ; forming in some sort a transition between 
the preceding and following sp. 
ft Carp, even but mostly hairy; seeds distinctly reticulate 
or punctate. 
6. G. ROTUNDIFOLIUM L. 
Softly villose-pubescent grey or hoary ; st. diffusely spreading 
