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Sophora. | LEGUMINOSAE. , 531 
A remarkable little plant, which with its divaricately branched habit appears to 
permanently match the juvenile state of S. microphylla. Buchanan described it as a 
prostrate shrub “‘ 12-18 in. high,” and in the absence of further information I described 
it as such in the first edition of this work. But Mr. J. H. Macmahon, who has forwarded 
me an excellent series of specimens collected in the Awatere Valley, informs me that 
it is better described as a densely branched shrub 3-6 ft. high, and Dr. Cockayne hag 
made a similar statement. (See Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 1 (1918) 184.) 
T-71(-) &). 77a ( Y aay. 
Family LIL. GERANIACEAE. 
Herbs or shrubs, very rarely trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, 
usually stipulate. Flowers regular or irregular, generally hermaphrodite. 
Sepals 5, seldom fewer, free or united to the middle, imbricate or rarely 
valvate, posterior one sometimes spurred. Petals as many at the sepals, 
hypogynous or slightly perigynous. Torus barely expanded into a disc, 
with or without 5 glands alternating with the petals, usually raised in 
the centre into a beak. Stamens generally twice the number of the 
petals or fewer by suppression; filaments usually connate at the base ; 
anthers 2-celled. Ovary 3-5-lobed, cells the same number; carpels 3-5, 
adnate to the axis as far as the beak; ovules 1-2 to each carpel. Fruit 
a 3-5-lobed capsule, often splitting from below ‘upwards into as many 
l-seeded carpels with long styles, which coil up elastically. Seeds with 
scanty or no albumen; embryo straight or curved. q: 
This family, as treated by Kunth in the “ Baavboutsich:” sea it is confined to 
Geranium and Pelargonium with their immediate allies, now contains 11 genera and 
about 600 species. About three-quarters of the species are natives of South Africa ; 
but the family is also fairly well represented in the North Temperate Zone. Many of 
the species are highly ornamental, and are much used in horticulture. The two 
New Zealand genera have a wide range. 
Flowers regular. Perfect stamens 10 .. ae Re .. 1, GERANIUM. 
Flowers irregular, with a spur adnate to the pedicel. Perfect 
stamens 5-7 ae 1 ws = os .. 2, PELARGONIUM. 
See PHawnxce~r*tt1eh “ie 
1. GERANIUM Linn. 478 3... 
Annual or perennial herbs, rarely woody at the base. Leaves 
opposite or alternate, usually palmately lobed or cut, stipulate. Peduncles 
axillary, bracteate, 1-2-flowered. Flowers regular. Sepals 5. Petals 5, 
hypogynous, imbricate, alternating with 5 glands. Stamens 10, usually 
all perfect, rarely 5 without anthers, free or connate at the base. Ovary 
5-lobed and 5-celled, with a long beak terminated by 5 stigmas; ovules 
2 in each cell, superposed. Capsule splitting from below upwards into 
5 earpels with long styles, which roll up elastically; seeds 1 in each 
carpel. 
A well-known genus, comprising over 200 species, widely distributed over the 
whole world, but most abundant in the Northern Hemisphere. One of the New 
Zealand species is endemic; 3 extend to Australia and temperate South America ; 
the remaining 2 are found in most temperate regions. 
Densely softly pilose, usually annual; rootstock slender. Carpels 
wrinkled ; seeds smooth .. AY. iz = 
Sparingly pilose; annual or perennial; rootstock slender. Stems 
stout; leaves large, 4-5-lobed; almost glabrous; lobes broad 2. G. dissectum var. 
Stems prostrate and with the leaves silky-hoary ; the leaves large glabratum, 
and broad. Peduncles 1-flowered. Flowers ? in. diam. .. & G. Traversii. 
Perennial ; rootstock stout, swollen. Stems 12~-15in., silky-pilose. 
Leaves cut to the base into 5-7 segments, segments narrow .. 4. G. piloswm. 
1. G. molle. 
