Refugium Botanicum.] — : [ September, 1869. 
TAB. 150. 
Natural Order GERANIACE. 
Tribe PELARGONIE®. 
Genus Prenarconium, L’Herit. 
Section HuMorRPHA. 
P. RANUNCULOPHYLLUM (Heklon & Zeyher, Pl. Cap. 593). Caule her- 
baceo ramoso breviter griseo-canescente, bracteis magnis late ovatis, 
foliis rotundato-reniformibus distincte zonatis ad tertiam latitudinis 
palmatisectis, utrinque breviter griseo-pubescentibus, umbellis 5—7- 
floris, petalis sequalibus emaculatis calyce paullulum longioribus.— 
P. alchemilloides var. ? ranunculifolium, Harv. Fl. Cap. vol. i. p. 297. 
A native of Cape Colony, gathered previously by Ecklon & 
Zeyher and Drege (7458b), and recently imported in a living 
state by Mr. Cooper. 
General habit that of P. alchemilloides. The stem permanently 
clothed with thin gray pubescence. Bracts broad-ovate, measuring 
5—6 lines long and broad, not ciliated. Leaves thicker in texture 
than in the two preceding, clothed with short gray dull pubescence 
like that of the stem, the fully developed ones two and a half to 
three inches broad, not cut more than a third of the way down 
and the sinuses narrow, the zone fainter than in the next, but 
always clearly visible. Flowers 5—7 in an umbel. The pedicel, 
including the calyz-spur, finally 12 to 15 lines long. Sepals 4—5 
lines deep, canescent on the back, narrow-lanceolate gradually 
narrowed to a long point. Petals subequal, 7—8 lines long, 
blush-coloured, not at all spotted, the veins a little deeper, the 
upper ones an eighth of an inch broad, the lower ones a little 
- narrower. Beak with the carpels an inch long. 
In the flowers and leaves this considerably resembles P. tabu- 
lare, but the clothing of the plant is very different, and in the 
latter the stipules are smaller, linear, and regularly ciliated. 
Tab. 150.—1, flower with pedicel; 2, separate petal: both magnified. 
—J. G. B. 
A free-flowering species, with pretty horseshoe-marked leaves. 
and neat blush-coloured flowers. Grown side-by-side with Pelar- 
gonum alchemilloides, its specific characters are very apparent, 
and after some years’ cultivation I find them constant. I received 
the plant from Mr. T. Cooper, who collected it in South Africa. 
It requires exactly the same soil and treatment as the two last- 
figured species.—W. W. S. 
