PEATE CCOCXXII. 
GERANIUM LUTEUM. 
Dwarf Yellow-flowered Geranium. 
Cie SoS AVI. OR DER FY. 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
One PointTaL. Five summits. Fruit beaked, 
five berries. 
Monocyna. Stigmata quinque. Fructus 
pentacoccus. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
GeRantum, tuberosum, pinnis foliorum op- Geranium, tuberous, with the pinnz of the 
positis subovatis acutis inciso-bifidis seu leaves somewhat ovate acute gash-bifid 
trifidis integrisve, scapis simplicibus, pe- or trifid or entire, simple flower-stalks, 
talis clavato-linearibus. | and clayatedly-linear petals. 
(RR a 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The empalement cut open. 
2. The chives and pointal. 
-3. The chives spread open. 
: , _ 4. The seed-bud and pointal. - 
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We have here the pleasure of adding another .tuberous-rooted Geranium, not enumerated by Willde- 
now, to the great variety of that. description already given in this work. As a species it appears 
sufficiently distinct from any of them, although pretty closely allied to that which is delineated in our 
last number; and also to G. fissifolium of our 378th piate. Its flowers are yellow marked with red, 
_as is frequently the case amongst the tuberous species of this extensive tribe of plants, but of very rare 
occurrence in the other departments of it. 
From the Clapham collection, incomparably rich in this description of plants, our figure was. 
derived, so long since as the summer of the year 1803. 
Like its congeners, it is a native of the Cape; requires the treatment of a green-house plant ; and 
is increased, but very slowly, by carefully dividing the tubers of its roots, when quiescent; taking 
especial care that no moisture comes in contact with the wounded parts, until nature has healed them 
by drying, and formed what the gardeners call a callus ; that is, a dry and hardened external skin. 
