- GERANIUM indicum noétu odoratum. Ger. Emac. 948. 
(G.) (filipendulifolium) foliis glabriufculis, corollis irregularibus, 
petalis longioribus laxis. 
GERANIUM trifle africanum. Riv. Pentap. 105. ? 
GERANIUM trifle. Anorr Thefaur. 1. i. 8. 19. 2 . 
GERANIUM trifte {indicum nottu olens. Weinm. Phyt. t. 
538. 6. ? 
The corolla of this variety of the night-{melling Petar- 
CONIUM is more irregular than in any of the figures above 
quoted, the petals which are longer and more lax, looking two 
upwards and three downwards. The leaves are far lefs hairy 
than in variety («), indeed almoft fmooth, except along the 
footftalk and main ribs, and are more like thofe of common 
drop-wort ; on which account we have added the additional 
name of jilipendulifolium, We have been induced to do this, 
more efpecially, as we are not fure that it may not turn out to 
be a diftinet fpecies. The fynonyms we have affigned to this 
variety in particular come confiderably nearer to it than the 
others, but none of them refemble it fo exaétly as to leave no 
doubt. oo ; oe 
In the day-time the flowers of this plant are without fmell ; 
but after fun-fet and through the night emit a powerful fcent, 
which conveys the idea of fome delicious fruit. sp tes 
Like the other tuberous-rooted {pecies, it has only five fertile 
ftamens ; and the pedicles are not recurved, before the flower- 
bud is expanded, as in the other Pelargoniums ; which we have 
before (No. 524) remarked as being common to all this 
fettion. 
Flowers moft part of the fummer. _Propagated by feeds or 
by cuttings of the root. Communicated by Meffts. Wurt.ey, 
Brame, and Mire, of the Fulham Nurfery, — 
