FLATE CVIII. 



/ 



GERANIUM RENIFORME. 



Kidiiey-Jliape-leaved Geranium, 



CLASS 



XVI. 



ORDER 



IV. 



Of SuppL System 

 Veget. 1/81. 



MONODELFHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives^ 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. 

 Fhuctus roflratus, penta-coccus. 



One PoiNTAL. Five Summits. 



Fruit furniflied with long awns, five dry ber 



nes. 



SeeGERANIUMGRANDIFLORUM. PLXIL VoLI 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Geranium foliis reniformibus, crenato-dentatis, 

 tomentolisj floribus heptandris^ fubquater- 



nis; purpureis} caule fruticofo, fub-carnofo. 



Geranium with kidney-fliaped leaves, between 

 fcolloped and toothed at the edges, and 

 downy 5 flowers with feven ferUle tips, 

 grow moftly by fours, and are purple j ftera 

 Ihrubby, and almoft flelhy. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 



1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew it 



2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fizc. 



3. The Threads cut open, to Ihew their i 



magnified. 



4. The Pointal and Seed-buds, maernifiec 



general number of fertile tips, 



Mr 



Geranium was introduced to the Royal Gardens, Kew, about nine years fince; ; 

 fe two vf::ir«. U fine nr^t K^^n Cf^r>-n ir» ^rsiT i^fV.A*> ^^n^xvi-^^ r^nt- ArnxiAncT wss made 



till 



within thefe two years, it has not been feen in any other coUeaion. Our drawing was ^^ 



1799. from a plant in the Clapham colleaion. This Geranium muft be treated rather as a dry-ftoTO 

 than as a common greenhoufe plant, for it affines much to a FnlcriHnm. and a few others, which are 



xeHxx 



18 proper for thofe from Table Mountain, or the vicinity of the Cape, 

 made about the month of March, and placed under a fmall glafs, eith 

 bed of the hoihoufc: it may be increafed by the root likewife. and f 



cuttin 



m 



fometi 



rfedcd 

 jmrts, is the 



ipoft of cow duns:, at leaft two vear« olH. nn^ n^rf Tm r^nrl nne nart. and 



iHt 



many 



