PLATE CLVIII. 



GERANIUM ECHINATUM. ^''^;;^:^/^"- 



Prickly -Jialked Geranium. Red-purpieflmvered Far. 



CLASS XVL ORDER IV. ^f Suppi. Syst. 



Veg. I7SI. 



MONADELPHIA DECJNDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYNA. Stigmata 5. Fru£tus roftratus, 

 penta-coccus. 



One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furnifhed 



with long awns, five dry berries. 

 See Geranium Grandiflorum. PI. XII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis fericeis, cordatis, inequallter 

 dentatis; caule fpinolo, fubcarnolb, fpinis 

 retrofradis; floribus hexandris, rubro-pur- 

 pureis; calycibus piloiis. 



Geranium with filky heart-fliaped leaves, une- 

 qually toothed; ftem fpiny, rather flefhy, 

 fpines turned downwards; flowers with fix 

 fertile tips and red-parple; cups hairy. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. An upper Petal of the Bloflbm. 



3. An under Petal of the Blolfom. 



4. The Chives and Pointal. 



5. The Chives fpread open. 



6. The Pointal, magnitied. 



This fine variety of the Prickly-flalked Geranium, was introduced, at the fame time with the white 

 variety, by Mr. Francis Maflbn, to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1795. It is a tender plant, 

 and requires the heat of the hot-houfe, through the winter months to preferve it, being a native of 

 that part of Africa near the Namaqua land, which is in moft parts a barren, arid fand, extremely 

 hot and parched, experiencing little change through the whole year. The propagation is either pfo- 

 duced by cuttings, or from the roots, which are tuberous, in moft inftances, if the plant is kept in 

 light fandy peat earth. The drawing was made, in March this year, at the Nurlery of Mr, J. Colville, 

 King's Road, Chelfea. 



