Refugium Botanicun.| | dpril, 1868. 
TAB. 5; 
Natural Order GERANIACEX. 
Tribe PELARGONIE2. 
Genus PenarGonium, L’ Herit. 
Sect. Peristera. Caule herbaceo, gracili, diffuso, foliis lobatis vel pin- 
natifidis, floribus parvis, petalis sepalis brevioribus aut equalibus. 
P. GrossuLaRioipes (Ait. Hort. Kew, vol. ii. p. 42). Caule subgla- 
bro, petiolis inferioribus foliis duplo longioribus, foliis subglabris 
rotundato-cordatis parce palmatisectis lobis inciso-serratis, pedunculis 
longis filiformibus, umbellis 8—8 floris, sepalis lanceolatis nervatis, 
petalis purpureis cuneatis sepalis subequantibus.—Cav. Diss. i. 119, 
fig.2; D.C. Prodr. i. p. 660; Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. p. 289, 
Geranium anceps, Jacq. Coll. iv. t. 22, fig. 8. P. nummularifolia, 
Ecklon and Zeyher. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Under the name of P. grossularioides Dr. Harvey brings 
together, in the ‘Cape Flora,’ a large number of allied forms. 
As we shall probably have occasion to refer afterwards to some 
of these, we now figure and describe what may be regarded as the 
typical plant as a standard for comparison. 
Stems copiously branched, diffuse, herbaceous, nearly glabrous, 
angular, furrowed. Stipules small, ovate, membranous. Lower 
petioles two to three inches long. Leaves roundish in general 
outline, an inch and a half to two inches each way, the base 
deeply cordate, the edge palmately lobed about a third of the way 
down, the divisions irregularly inciso-dentate, texture herbaceous, 
veining flabellate, surfaces thinly hairy. lowers in copious 38- to 
8-flowered umbels on long slender peduncles. DBracts minute, 
lanceolate, membranous. Pedicels a quarter of an inch long. The 
calyx about the same. Sepals lanceolate, nerved. The petals 
bright purple, equalling the sepals in length, and nearly equal to 
one another in breadth, cuneato-ligulate, about a line broad. 
Fertile stamens five. The stigmas the same colour as the petals. 
=v. G. DB. 
This plant was raised from seeds sent from South Africa by 
Mr. Thos. Cooper. It grows freely in a light rich soil, and thrives 
well in the open air during the summer time, where it spreads 
on the ground and produces a pleasing effect. The plant requires 
a warm pit or cool greenhouse during the winter.—W. W. S. 
