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Petals refuse, longer Ilian the sepals. Carpels even, pilose. Seeds quite even 
or minutely punctulate, not pitted. — FI. Antarct. ii. 252. 
Mountain regions in the Middle Island. Terraces on the Kowai river, Sinclair and 
Ilaast j Chalky Bay, Lyall ; Otago, Rector and Buchanan. Also found in Tasmania, on 
the Australian alps, in i'uegia, and South Chili ; it scarcely differs from G. dissectum a, ex- 
cept in habit and the even seeds. Colenso’s Ruahine mountain specimens are, I think, re- 
ferable to G. microphyllum. 
4. G. molle, Linn. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 40. A procumbent, much-branched, 
slender plant, covered everywhere with soft spreading hairs. Leaves 1 in. 
broad, orbicular or reniform, more or less 5-9-lobed, the segments 3-5-fid ; 
petioles long ; stipules very broad and membranous. Peduncles 2 -flowered, 
with broad membranous bracts. Flowers i-j in. broad. Sepals broadly 
ovate, not awned. Petals bifid, longer than the sepals, pink. Carpels 
wrinkled, quite glabrous. Seeds even, not dotted. 
Var. j8 ? Carpels not at all wrinkled. 
Northern and Middle Islands, Lyall (without habitat) ; /3, Hawke’s Bay, Colenso. 
I am much puzzled with this plant, which is not a native of any part of Australia or of America, 
though common in Europe, and extending east to the Himalaya. Lyall’s specimens are 
identical with the European, and quite characteristic of the commonest state of G. molle in 
every particular ; but all Coleuso’s have quite even carpels, as in the European G. pusillum, 
Linn., and G:rotundifolium, Linn., from both of which they differ in their glabrous carpels, 
and from the latter also in the bifid petals. 
2. PELARGONIUM, L’Heritier. 
Herbs (rarely shrubs), with opposite, simple lobed or dissected, stipulate 
leaves, and 1- or many-flowered axillary peduncles. — Flowers slightly irregular. 
Sepals 5, the upper produced into a spur which is adnate with the pedicel. 
Petals 5 or fewer, the upper often dissimilar. Torus with 5 glands. Sta- 
mens 10, of which 7 only or fewer are antheriferous. Ovary and fruit as in 
Geranium. 
A very large South African genus, rare elsewhere, and almost absent in Europe, Asia, and 
America ; a few are Australian. 
1. P. australe, Willd.,v ar. clandestinum j — P. clandestiuum, L’Her. ; 
FI. N. Z. i. 41. A more or less hairy, perennial herb; stem erect, simple 
or branched, 4 in. -2 feet high. Leaves orbicular or ovate, deeply cordate at 
the base, 3-5 -lobed, lobes coarsely or finely toothed or serrate ; petioles 
slender, 2-6 in. long. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves, pubescent, 
many-flowered. Flowers small, \ in. broad, in 10-12-flowered umbels, with 
whorled, ovate, acuminate bracts at the base ; pedicels in. long, pubes- 
cent with scattered white hairs. Sepals unequal, ovate, acuminate ; spur 
short, gibbous, or 0. Petals unequal, T V~ i in. long, deep pink, longer than 
the sepals, spathulate, notched. Stamens about 5 fertile, the rest reduced 
to membranous scales. Carpels very hairy, their tails lined on the inner face 
with white silky hairs. Seeds minutely dotted. — P. acugnaticum, Thouars ; 
P. grossularioides, Aiton ; Harv. and Sond. Flor. Cap. i. 289. 
Northern and Middle Islands : abundant, especially near the sea, Banks and So- 
lander, etc. A lotion of bruised leaves of this is applied by the natives to scalds and burns. 
Also found in Tristan d’Acunha, South Africa and Australia. 
