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 Mahernia Incisa. Cut-Leav'd Mahernia. 



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C/tj/} and Order. 



P.ENTANDRIA PeNTAGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Calyx 5-dentatus. Peiala 5. Neft. 5 obcordata filamentis 

 fuppofita. Capfida 5-locularis. 



Specific Char after. 



MAHERNIA incifa caule hifpidulo, foliis lanceolatis incifis, 

 llipulis integerrimis. 



In point of fize and. mode of growth, this beautiful fpecies 

 comes near to the pinnata already figured in this work ; but 

 differs effentially in the fingular hifpidity of its ftalks, the form 

 of its leaves, and the colour of its flowers. 



The flalks to the naked eye difcover a manifeft roughnefs, a 

 magnifying glafs mews this roughnefs to be of a fingular kind, 

 that they are befet on every fide with little protuberances, from 

 whence iifue tufts of pellucid hairs, and here and there a fingle 

 hair is difcoverable with a fmall red vifcid globule at its extre- 

 mity ; a portion of the flalk, when highly magnified, fome- 

 what refembles that of the creeping Cereus. The leaves, which 

 are not fo manifestly hairy as the {talk and calyces, are deeply 

 jagged on the edges, and bear fome little affinity in their 

 appearance to thofe of the Pelargonium tricolor. The flowers, 

 when in bud, are of the richeit crimfon imaginable ; as they 

 open they incline to a deep orange, and finally become of a 

 yellowifli hue. 



As this plant produces abundance of bloffoms, they may be 

 feen in all their ftates during molt of the Summer and Au- 

 tumnal months. 



The plant from whence our drawing was taken, flowered this 

 Summer with Mr. Colvill, Nurferyman, King's-Road, it 

 requires the fame treatment as the pi/mata, is probably a native 

 of the fame country, and may be propagated by cuttings in the 

 fame manner. 



