PLATE CCXXll. 
GERANIUM RADIATUM. 
Rayed-leaved Geranium. 
CLASS XVL ORDER IV. 
AWNADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Monooyna. Stigmata quinque. Frudtus rof- 
tratus, penta-coccus. 
One PoiNTAL. Five fummits. Fruit fiirniflied 
with long awns, five dry berries. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Geranium foliis fub-obovatis, crafliufculis, inte- 
gerrimis, radiatis, humi adpreflisj calyci- 
bus monophyllis, laciniis eredlisj fioribus 
pentandris, maximis, luteis; radice tube- 
Geranium with leaves nearly obovate, thickifh, 
quite entire, placed in a ray about the ftera, 
and lying on the ground 5 cups of one leaf, 
the fegments erect} flowers with five fertile 
chives, very large and yellow j root tuberous. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Cup laid open, to (hew its hollow ftrufture. 
2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize. 
3. The Chives fpread oj)cn, to Ihew the number and fituation of the 
fertile ones. 
4. The Pointal, magnified. 
Thb only plants of this fpecies of Geranium are to be found in the Clapham collection j they were 
among the laft, received by Mr. Hibbert from the Cape, in 1801. To affix any particular period as 
the exact feafon of its flowering, would be premature j as, the plant from which our figure was taken, 
in the month of Auguft, laft year, had been kept conftantly in the green-boufc} and, we muft pre- 
fume, as the root arrived nearly dry, the regular feafon of its flowering muft have been materially 
altered. It appears to flourifh in a light fandy foil. The propagation muft be from the feeds, or from 
