Calyx 5- cleft, segments pubescent, all reflexed ; upper 
and lower one broadest, oblong or ovate, obtuse, the other 
3, lanceolate and more acute. Petals 5, nearly equal, 
obovate, with long unguis, of a straw colour, tinged with 
brownish copper, spreading when first open, afterwards all 
reflexed. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 bearing 
anthers, one of them a large spatula shaped one, which 
produces an anther about half the size of the others. 
Style short, smooth, and straw coloured. Stigmas 5, 
spreading. 
Several roots of this very distinct and curious species, 
were received from the Cape, by Mr. Colvill, in the year 
1820, and was named by us P. hurcefolium in Mr. Col- 
vill's Catalogue, pubhshed in 1821, as we had not then 
seen their flowers ; the following year they produced 
flowers, but not in perfection, though sufficiently so, for us 
to determine it to be the Geranium luridum of Mr. An- 
drews, drawn from a plant at Mr. Lee's, which we recol- 
lect having been pointed out to us as a great rarity, as far 
back as 1811; when we were also informed that there was 
no means of propagating it ; the method now generally 
adopted of fertilizing the stigmas with the pollen, being at 
that time scarcely ever attended to and they seldom pro- 
duce any offsets to their tubers, so that there is scarcely 
any means of propagating them, except by seeds. 
Mr. Colvill's plants have flowered in great profusion 
this autumn, when our drawing was made. Like the other 
plants of this section, it succeeds well in an equal portion 
of light turfy loam, peat, and sand, requiring no water 
when in a dormant state, and not a great deal at any time ; 
as it makes but few fibrous roots, the pots must also be 
well drained with small potsherds, that the water may pass 
readily ofl", so that the mould do not get sodden : seeds of 
it ripen readily, if pains be taken to fertilize the stigmas 
with the pollen when in bloom. 
