Plate 146.
PELARGONIUM PULVERULENTUM.
Cape Province, Natal.
Geraniaceae. Tribe Pelargonieae.
Pelargonium, L’Herit.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 273.
Pelargonium pulverulentum, Colv. in Sw. Ger. t. 218; Fl. Cap. vol. i.
p. 272.
This species of Pelargonium, according to the late Dr. J. Medley Wood, was first found in Natal in 1878, and was not met with again until 1914, when it was found on the south coast near the sea. It had previously been recorded from the eastern districts of the Cape Province by Ecklon and Zeyher, Drège and Burke. The species belongs to the section Polyactium of the genus, and should be compared with Pelargonium crassicaule, which we figured on Plate 52.
The white powdery pubescence, mentioned by Sweet as covering the young leaves, has not been noticed in the Natal plants.