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lanceolate, acute, unequally-cut leaves, and fine dark red 

 and white flowers marked with black, a handsome free- 

 growing plant, flowering the greater part of the year. 



MoNso^NiA, or Pelargo^nium, specidsa, large-flovvered 

 Monsonia, S. G. 77, B.M. 73, a suffrutescent stem with 

 few branches, the leaves quinate, smooth, and leaflets 

 bipinnate ; the flowers on solitary peduncles, large, yel- 

 lowish white, with a tinge of red, and dark-red and black at 

 the centre. It is a most beautiful plant, grows in turfy 

 loam, peat and sand, and is propagated from pieces of the 

 roots planted in pots, with their tops above the surface of 

 the mould. 



M. pilosa, hairy Monsonia, S. G. 199, a suffruticose 

 branching stem, with palmately five-parted or pinnatified 

 leaves, and pale, cream-coloured flo^vers tinged with red. A 

 handsome plant, which grows in loam and peat, and is in- 

 creased by cuttings of the shoots or roots placed in a dry, 

 airy part of the green-house. 



Jenkinso^nia, or Pelargo^nium, pendula, pendulous- 

 branched Jenkinsonia, S. G. 188, a pendulous much- 

 branched stem, with bipinnatified or deeply lacinate leaves, 

 and pinkish-purple flowers, varied with purple lines. A free 

 grower and flowerer, hardy, and very desirable for training to 

 a trellis. 



J. quinata, quinate-leaved Jenkinsonia, S. G. 79, B. M. 

 547, a shrubby flexuose stem, the branches covered with 

 a powdery pubescence, the leaves alternate and five- 

 parted, and the flowers yellowish-white marked with red. 

 It is a handsome, rare, and curious plant, requiring the 

 warmest part of the green-house ; it grows in loam, peat 

 and sand, and is increased by cuttings in the same soil. 



J. tetragdna, square-stalked Jenkinsonia, S. G. 99, 

 B. M. 136, a shrubby, succulent, much-branched stem, 

 with fleshy, cordate leaves, and long-petalled red and >Yhite 



