PLATE CLXVIII. 
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GERANIUM PICTUM. 
Painted-flowered Geranium. 
CLARE: 2Vi: ORDER IV. 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. _ Threads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
One Pointar. Five Summits. Fruit furnithed 
with long awns, five dry berries. ~ 
Monocrna. Stigmata 5. Fru@us roftratus, 
penta-coccus. 
See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM. PI, XII. Vol. L 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Geranium foliis cordato-oblongis, obtufis, in- || Geranium with oblong heart-fhaped leaves, 
equaliter incifis, tomentofis, humi adpref- blunt, unequally gafhed, downy, and ly- 
fis; corolla alba, petalis fuperioribus pro- ing clofe to the ground; bloffom white; 
fandé fupra medium rubro maculatis; fta- the upper petals deeply marked with red 
minibus feptem fertilibus; radice tuberofa. : about the middle; feven fertile chives; 
root tuberous, 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Empalement. 
2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 
3. The Chives fpread open, magnified. 
4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified. 
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No Genus of Plants claims our notice, for its beauty, more than Geranium, and this fpecies, cer- 
tainly, ranks amongft the foremoft. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and we believe only to 
be found in the Clapham Colleton; where, our figure was taken in April this year, from a plant, 
the bulb or root of which had been received the preceding autumn. It is nearly the only one, 
amongft twenty two fpecies of the tuberous kind, all having irregular petalled bloffoms and tubular 
cups, of which we poflefs drawings, that has feven fertile chives; the greater number have two, four, 
or five. It appears to flourith under the treatment given it by Mr. Allen, which is, by keeping it in 
fandy peat, on a fhelf, very dry, in the green-houfe, The propagation appears to be the fame for 
this, as the other tuberous kinds, that is, by the root. 
