PLATE CCCCXX. | 
GERANIUM FLORIBUNDUM. 
Tuberous Many-flowered Geranium. 
CLASS XVI. ORDER Iv. 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Threads united. ‘Ten Chives. 
- is : 
' ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
“Monocyrna. Stigmata quinque. Fructus ro- | | _ One Porntat. Five summits, Fruit beaked, 
stratus pentacoccus. five berries. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
GERANruM, tuberosum, pinnis foliorum oppo- | 
sitis bipartitis, laciniis ellipticis; scapis 
numerosis ramosis, petalis clayato-linea- | 
Geranium, tuberous, with the pinne of the 
leaves opposite and two-parted, with their 
segments elliptical ; numerous branched 
flower-stalks, and clavatedly-linear petals. — 
ribus, 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The empalement. ‘. = 
2. The seed-bud, chives, and pointal. 
4. The seed-bud and pointal, 
5. The same magnified. 
Geranium floribundum appears to be not only a nondescript species of the Erodium family of this 
"extensive tribe of plants; but at the same time, a new and brilliant one. Few in number are the 
species which equal it in beauty : and still more rare are those which can be allowed to surpass it. 
It is of extremely humble growth, and its roots are tuberous: from the crowns of which it 
throws up, in the early part of summer, a considerable number of flowering stems, each adorned with 
many flowers ; whence our specific name of floribundum. 
It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and prospers with the same treatment as the other dwarf 
Geraniums ; and is propagated like them, by carefully dividing the tubers of its roots. 
Our figure was made from the Clapham collection, which it is well known abounds more in this 
description of plants, than any other existing in this country. 
