of which has a leaf at its bafe, fimilar to the other leaves of 

 the plant, but fmaller, and terminates in an umbel of feven or 

 eight flowers ; as the umbels bloffom in fucceflion, a period of 

 feveral months ufually intervenes betwixt the blowing of the 

 firft and the laft ; when the flower is expanded, the hindmoft 

 leaf of the calyx continues upright, the others are reflexed as 

 in other fpecies of this genus, they are all befet with fine long 

 hairs ; the three lowermoft petals are pure white, with a little 

 gibbofity at the bafe of each, the two uppermoft are marked 

 each with three irregular fpots, of a rich purple colour, in- 

 clining to carmine, the two lowermoft fpots narroweft and of 

 the deeped colour ; of the ftamina there are fix filaments which 

 have antherae, and four which have none ; ftigma red, divided 

 into five parts, and a little longer than the fertile filaments. 



In its habit this plant refembles fomewhat the Pelargonium 

 cordifolium, is a native of the Cape, flowers from May to Sep- 

 tember, in favourable feafons has produced feeds here, but is 

 more ufually increafed by cuttings. 



Varies with petals of a rich purple colour, in which the 

 fpots are fimilar, though not fo confpicuous. 



