PLATE CLXVIII. 



GERANIUM P I C T U M. 



Paint ed-flo\cered Geranium . 



CLASS XVL ORDER IV. 

 MONADELPHIJ DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



MoNOGYNA. Stigmata 5 Frudus roftratus, j| One Poivtal. Five Summits. Fruit furnillicd 

 penta-coccus. i| "''''' lo"o awns, five dry berries. 



il See Geranium Gkandiflokum. Pl.XJI. VoI.I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Geranium foliis cordato-oblongis, obtufis, in- 

 equaliter incifis, tomeiitofis, hurai adjjrel- 

 fis; corolla alba, petaiis laperioribus pro- 

 funde fupra medium rubro maculatis; fla- 

 minibus lepteiu fertilibus; radice tuberofa. 



Gerapium with oblong heart- iliaped leaves, 

 blunt, unequal!)' gaflied, downy, and ly- 

 ing clofe to the ground; bloflbm white j 

 the upper petals deeply marked with red 

 about the middle; feven fertile chives j 

 root tuberous. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



i. The Ejnpalement. 



2. 1 he Chives and Pointal, magnified. 



3. The Chives fpread open, magnified. 



4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnitied. 



No Genus of Plants claims our notice, for its beauty, more than Geranium, and tliis fpecies, cer- 

 tainly, ranks amongit the foremort. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and we believe only to- 

 be found in the Clapham Colleftion; 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 bloIToms and tubular 

 cups, of which we polfefs drawings, that has feven fertile chives; the greater number have two, four, 

 or five. It appears to flourifh under the treatment given it by Mr. Allen, which is, by keeping it in 

 fandy peat, on a ilielf, 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. 



