Refugium Botanicum.} [ September, 1869. 
TAB. 148. 
Natural Order GERANIACE. 
Tribe PELARGONIEA. 
‘Genus PELarGgonium, L’ Herit. 
Sect. Humorrua. Caule herbaceo, ramoso, foliis longe petiolatis rotun- 
dato-reniformibus palmatisectis. 
P. ALCHEMILLOIDES (Willd. Sp. Plant. iii. p. 656). Caule herbaceo 
ramoso pilis patentibus lucidis conspicue vestito, bracteis ovatis 
parvis, foliis rotundato-reniformibus ad medium quinquepartitis 
sinubus angustis, utrinque pilis similibus adpressis vestitis, spe 
paullulum zonatis, umbellis 83—6 floris, petalis inzequalibus emacu- 
latis superioribus calyce subduplo longioribus. — Geranium alche- 
milloides, Cav. Diss. iv. p. 234, t. 98. P. aphanoides, Thunb. £1. 
Cap. p. 514. P. dondiefolium, Link. Hnum. ii. p. 187 ? 
A native of Cape Colony. 
Stems herbaceous, branched, erect, attaining a height of one or 
two feet, densely clothed with spreading or slightly deflexed firm 
silvery hairs often a line long. Bracts ovate, a quarter of an 
inch long, not ciliated. Leaves rotundato-reniform, the fully 
developed ones two to three inches across, cut about half-way 
down into five lobes with very narrow sinuses between them, often 
indistinctly zonate, and both sides conspicuously clothed with 
adpressed glittering hairs like those of the stem. Petioles of the 
lower leaves three or four inches long, clothed like the branches. 
Peduncles ascending, often six or nine inches long. Umbels 
3—6-flowered. The pedicels, including the calyx-spur, finally an 
inch long. Sepals 4—5 lines long, lanceolate, acuminate, densely 
clothed on the back with hairs like those of the stem. Petals 
cream-coloured with pink veins, the two upper ones 7—8 lines 
deep by three lines broad, the three lower ones shorter and 
narrower. Beak of the fruit 15—18 lines long, densely pilose. 
Tab. 148.—1, side view of flower with pedicel; 2, front view of flower : 
both magnified.—J. G. B. 
An unpretending species of the large genus Pelargonium, with 
rather a weedy appearance. It flowers freely when grown in light 
sandy loam, allowed the open air during the summer, and a 
cool greenhouse in winter. The plant was sent to me from 
South Africa by Mr. T. Cooper.—W. W. S. 
