Refugium Botanicun. November, 1871. 
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TAB. 291. 
Natural Order GErRANIACEM. 
Tribe GERANIEM. 
fsenus Eropium, L’ Herit. 
Ki}. Munsyanum (Boiss. ex Munby, Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 11. 288). 
Herbacea perennis diffusa caulibus glaucescentibus, stipulis 
ovato-lanceolatis scariosis, foliis cordato-ovatis iregulariter 
crenatis sepissime ad medium palmatim tripartitis utrinque 
viridibus supra glabrescentibus subtus ad venas leviter pilosis, 
umbelis 5—8-floris, bracteis latis scariosis persistentibus, 
pedicellis subglabris, sepalis oblongis cuspidatis, petalis obo- 
vatis calyce duplo superantibus superioribus angustioribus 
basali nigro-maculato, filamentis staminum fertilium edentulis, 
carpellis hispidis rostro biunciali. — Walp. Ann. iv. 893. LF. 
mauritanicum, Cosson et Durieuw Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1. 809. 
A native of Algeria, gathered by numerous collectors, and 
named by Boissier in compliment to our countryman, Mr. 
Munby, who has so carefully explored the Flora of that country. 
A copiously-branched herbaceous perennial, about a foot high, 
with moderately stout stems, clothed when young with a few 
spreading gray bristly hairs, becoming glabrous as they mature. 
Stipules scariose, ovate-lanceolate, persistent, three to four lines 
long. Petioles slightly downy, the lower five to six inches, the 
upper under one inch, long. Leaves an inch to two inches broad, 
cordate-ovate, blunt, irregularly inciso-crenate, usually three- 
lobed about half-way down to the middle, moderately thick in 
texture, green on both surfaces, glabrescent above, furnished 
with a few inconspicuous hairs on the veins below. lowers in 
copious terminal umbels of five to eight flowers each. Bracts 
lke the stipules in texture, ovate or roundish, persistent. 
Pedicels nine to fifteen lines long, very slender, subglabrous, 
purplish. Calyx three and a half to four lines long; the sepals 
oblong, with very distinct cusps. Petals obovate, five-eighths of 
an inch long, purple, the two upper ones rather narrower than 
the other three, the basal one with a black spot in the throat. 
Filaments of the fertile stamens entire. Carpels hispid, the beak 
finally two inches long. 
Tas. 291.—1, flower with petals taken away; 2, single petal. — 
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