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16. GEEANIACEJE. 
long. L. larger 2 or 3 in. long and nearly as broad, deeply cut 
into 3 main lobes, each of the side ones 2-, the middle rather 
longer and less deeply 3-lobed ; the uppermost distinctly tri- 
partite. Ped. 4-fl. and upwards. Stip. pale brown dry and 
scarious. Sep. always close-pressed thickly hairy, with strong 
green neryes or ribs on a pale transparent lilmy ground ; awn 
half their length. FI. small but conspicuous and pretty. Pet. 
pale but bright pure rose, immaculate, 3-neryed, just longer 
than the sep. with their awns, unequal, f, the 2 upper broader 
and oyal, the 3 lower narrower and oblong or elliptic ; claw 
yery short abrupt pubescent inside and strongly eiliate with 
deflexed rather long hairs. Fertile fil. winged and dilated 
downwards ; 5 sterile oyate or broadly lanceolate acute petal- 
like pink or rose-colour, all hairy or shortly eiliate downwards 
and simple or not toothed at the base. Glands at base of fertile 
stam. notched bright gr. Stigmas dull dark rose. Carp, thickly 
but finely pubescent with short close-pressed white silky hairs, 
without any grooyes at all below the small round scars at the 
top and consequently without any rib. They are also shorter 
and plumper, broader above and less narrowed below, than in 
E. malacoides L. Beak 1-lj in. long, slightly pubescent. — 
Pet. very fugacious, falling mostly before noon. A very elegant 
and ornamental rock-work pi. in gardens near the sea in En- 
gland, which it enlivens by its bright gr. foliage and pink abun- 
dant fi. opening in long succession. — It is curious that E. chium 
L. is as common and E. malacoides L. as rare in PS. as E. mala- 
coides L. is common and E. chium L. rare in Madeira. 
3. Pelaegoniem Hcrit. 
Garden Geraniums. Malvas. 
* Herbaceous. 
ttfl- P. ALCHEMILLOIDES Willd. 
“St. dilfuse villose ; 1. cordate 5-lobed palmate ; ped. few-fl., 
pet. nearly equal, stigmas sessile.” — DC. i. 660. Geranium 
alchemilloides (L.) Cav. Diss. 4. t. 98. f. 1. — Herb. per. Mad. 
reg. 1, 2 ; r. A mere outcast of gardens about Funchal here and 
there ; as on the brink and down the rocky E. cliff of the Rib. 
de S. Joao a little way above the Peak Fort over against the 
Achada, &c. Spr. — Greyish or slightly hoary scentless. L. or- 
bicular. Ped. long slender 4-6-fl. FI. small pale y. or whitish. 
Pet. narrow. 
* # Shrubby. 
tf2. P. enquinans (L.) Ait. Malvas. 
Velvety-pubescent; st. and branches erect, stiff thickish suc- 
culent; 1. orbicular-reniform very obtusely crenate-lobed light 
