Refugium Botanicum.] [September, 1869. 
TAB. 147. 
Natural Order GERANIACE. 
Tribe GERANIEA. 
Genus GERANIUM, Linn. 
G. carrrum (Ecklon et Zeyher). Caulibus basi frutescentibus sursum 
herbaceis copiose ramosis diffusis gracilibus breviter glanduloso- 
pubescentibus, foliis utrinque viridibus breviter strigillosis profunde 
digitatim 3—5 partitis divisionibus plus minus profunde pinnati- 
fidis, pedunculis elongatis bifloris, corollis pro genere mediocribus. 
—Ficklon & Zeyher, Pl. Cap. No. 448; Harv, et Sond. Fl. Cap. 
vol. i. p. 258. 
A native of Cape Colony. 
A copiously-branched perennial, woody at the base, with dif- 
fuse herbaceous slender stems often one or two feet long and 
entangled, generally naked in the lower part, but clothed with 
short gray glandular pubescence upwards. Stipules cut down 
into several linear-setaceous divisions. Petioles slender, spread- 
ing, of the upper leaves about an inch, of the lower three 
or four inches long. Leaves one to three inches broad, her- 
baceous in texture, full green above and clothed with minute 
adpressed hairs, paler below and only shortly hairy on the ribs, 
cut down nearly or quite to the base into 8—5 divisions with 
several acute erecto-patent irregular deltoid or linear teeth. 
Flowers in pairs on long slender pedicels from the axils of the 
leaves. Bracts minute, linear. Pedicels slender, 83—6 lines long, 
clothed with short gray glandular pubescence, like the peduncles 
and branches. Sepals ovate-cuspidate, three lines deep, strongly 
nerved and more or less pubescent on the back. Petals pale lilac 
or white, obovate, emarginate at the apex, considerably exceeding 
the calyx, the expanded corolla about half an inch broad. Torus 
6—8 lines long, the carpels pubescent. 
Tab. 147.—1, flower without petals; 2, single petal: both magnified. 
—J. G. B. 
This species of Geranium has a weak rambling habit, and but 
little pretensions to beauty. It will grow in any good light soil, 
and requires protection from the frost in the winter. While 
