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large flowers. — Sepals 5, entire. Stamens alternating with 5 setifonn pro- 
cesses of the staminal tube. Ovary 5-celled ; cells imperfectly divided by 
a longitudinal septum. Cocci 5, septate, 2-seeded, or 10, by each splitting 
along the septum. 
1. L. monogynum, Forst. ,—Fl. N. Z. i. 28. A perennial, variable 
herb, sometimes woody at the base, simple or branched, 6-12 in. high, erect 
or decumbent. Leaves ^-1 in. long, oblong linear or linear-subulate, 1-3- 
nerved. Flowers numerous, white or pale-blue, very variable in size. Se- 
pals ovate-lanceolate, acute. Styles united, their free tips recurved. Capsule 
globose, of 10 cocci. — Bot. Mag. t. 3574. 
Var. a. grandiflorum. Erect, branched; flowers numerous | to 1. in. 
Var. 0. diffusum. Decumbent ; flowers few, 1 to 1 in. 
Common, especially on rocky coasts throughout the islands. Banks and Solander, etc. 
ascends 2000 ft. in the mountains of Canterbury, Haast. Chatham Island, var. a, Bieffenbach. 
Order XIII. GERANIACE2E. 
{Including Oxalide/E.) 
Herbs (the New Zealand species), with alternate, stipulate or exstipulate 
leaves, and regular or irregular hermaphrodite flowers. — Sepals 5, free, im- 
bricate, one sometimes spurred. Petals 5, rarely fewer, imbricated. Disk 
inconspicuous or glandular. Stamens 10, hypogynous, the alternate ones often 
smaller, or imperfect, or without anthers ; filaments often connate below ; 
anthers versatile. Ovary 3-5-lobed, or of 3-5 carpels combined in the axis, 
produced into as many free or connate styles, with capitate or longitudinal 
stigmas; cells 1- or more ovuled. Fruit capsular, 3~5-lobed, 3-5-valved, 
variously dehiscing. Seeds with little or no albumen. 
A very large Order, containing many genera absent in New Zealand, differing a good deal 
in structure, to some of which the above character does not altogether apply. 
Flowers regular. Styles combined. Carpels caudate 1. Geranium. 
Flowers irregular. Calyx with a spur adnate.to the pedicel .... 2. Pelargonium. 
Flowers regular. Styles free. Leaves 3-foliolate ....... 3. Oxalis. 
1. GERANIUM, Linn. 
Stemless or branching herbs, with, stipulate leaves, and axillary, 1-2- 
flowered, 2-bracteolate peduncles. — Flowers regular. Torus with 5 glands 
alternating with the petals. Stamens 10, all perfect (rarely 5 imperfect), 
free or united at the base. Ovary 5-celled, beaked; beak terminated by 5 
short styles, which are longitudinally stigmatose ; cells 2-ovuled. Capsule 
of 5, tailed, 1-seeded cocci, elastically curling up and separating from the axis, 
to which their tails remain attached. Cotyledons plicate or convolute. 
A large genus in Britain, and all temperate regions of the world. The roots are astrin- 
gent. All the New Zealand species are biennial- or perennial-rooted. The species are most 
puzzling to discriminate. 
Peduncles 2-flowered. Sepals awned. Carpels hairy. Seeds pitted 1. G. dissectum. 
Peduncles 1-flowered. Sepals hardly awned. Carpels hairy. Seeds 
scarcely dotted 2. G. miornphgllum. 
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