Refugium Botanicum. | [| Vovember, 1871. 
TAB. 290. 
Natural Order GERANIACE®. 
Tribe GERANIER. 
Genus GERANIUM, Linn. 
G. ornntrHopopum (Ecklon et Zeyher, Pl. Cap. No. 449). Herbacea 
38—65 pedalis perennis diffusa, caulibus gracilibus dense albo- 
pubescentibus, foliis longe petiolatis rotundis ad vel ultra 
medium palmatim quinquepartitis lobis pinnatifidis, preesertim 
ad faciem inferiorem molliter pubescentibus, bracteis et stipulis 
parvis laciniatis, floribus copiosis cernuis geminis mediocribus, 
pedicellis et sepalis oblongo-cuspidatis dense pubescentibus, 
petalis albo-rubris calyce subduplo longioribus. — Harv. Ll. 
Cap. 1. 258. 
A native of Cape Colony, gathered by Zeyher, Drege, Burchell, 
and many other collectors. 
A copiously diffusely-branched perennial herb, with the general 
habit of our English G. pyrenaicum, reaching a height of four to 
five feet, with slender stems densely clothed with soft short 
decurved whitish hairs. Lower petioles reaching a foot long, 
upper an inch or less. Stipules minute, cut into linear segments. 
Leaves roundish in general outline, thin and soft in texture, 
downy principally on the lower face, three to four inches broad, 
palmately five-lobed usually at least half-way down, with pin- 
natifid divisions. lowers in pairs on densely downy drooping 
slender pedicels one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch long, the 
hairs of which are sometimes gland-tipped. Calyx one-fourth of 
an inch deep; the sepals oblong, very downy, cuspidate. Petals 
twice as long as the sepals, in our plant white veined with red. 
Beak of carpels downy, six to seven lines long. 
TERe Sosy 

Tas. 290.—1, flower with petals taken away, magnified. 
This straggling species of Geranwwm was grown by Mr. Thos. 
Cooper, of Reigate, from seeds which he procured in South 
Africa. It seems to require greenhouse treatment during the 
winter, and likes a light rich soil—W. W.S. 
