are the largest of any in the whole genus, easily torn, hairy, 
on the under surface very soft and whitish. In the flowers 
- we é@xamitied, there were regularly 5 fertile stamens, alter- 
nating with 5 shorter barren filaments, and besides these a 
larger, spathula-shaped, stamen-like organ, which we have 
not observed in any other species. The flowers resemble 
those of PeLARGoniumM friste, and like them are sweet-scented 
at night, and scentless during the day. 
Messrs. Loppiees have a smaller variety, in which the 
leaves are not so undulated, less hairy, and more regularly 
three-lobed. In this the flowers are still darker coloured. 
Native of the Cape of Good-Hope ; from whence the roots 
were imported into Holland in 1698, and it was cultivated in 
England in 1710. Yet it is still among the rarest species of 
this numerous tribe. 
We have been twice favoured with a root of this plant from 
the Rev. S. T. Wyxps, of Burrington, near Bristol, one of — 
which flowered in May 1817. 3 
It must be treated as one of the more tender Cape Gera- 
niums. Is not very readily increased by the tuberous root, 
and does not seem to ripen its seed freely ; so that it is likely 
to continue a scarce plant. 
