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MONSONIA speciosa. 
Large-Jlowered Monsonia. 
Monsonia. Cal. 5-sepaliis. Cor. 5-petala, incisa. Staiii* 
15, connata: urceolo filamentorum 5-fido. Stig. 
5 sessilia. Caps. 5, monospermae, aristatse, ad basin 
receptaculi rostratae. 
M. speciosa, foliis qainatis glabds; foliolis bipinnatis; 
segmentis linearibus acutis, caule sufFruticoso an- 
guloso, pedunculis pilosis. 
Monsonia speciosa. JVilldm. sp. pi. 3. p. 718. Botan* 
magaz. 73. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 192. Pers. 
syn. 2. p. 238. 
Geranium speciosum. Thunb. prod. p. 112. Cavan, 
diss. 3. JO. 179. t. 74./. 1. 
Stem sufFrutescent with few branches. Branches 
flexuose, weak, and slender, trailing except supported. 
Leaves quinate, smooth; leaflets bipinhate; segments 
linear, acute, rigid, smooth and shining, of a dark 
green colour. Petioles long and slender, nearly cylin- 
drical, pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, acute, fringed, 
and joined to the base of the petioles. Peduncles 
longer than the petioles, slightly angular, gradually 
thickening upwards, slightly hairy. Involucre of about 
6 bractes ; bractes subulately linear, concave, acute, 
with fringed membranaceous margins. Pedicles slightly 
angular, thicker than the peduncle, clothed with long 
unequal horizontal hairs. Sepals 5, nearly equal, lan- 
ceolately elliptical, mucronate, 3-nerved from the base, 
thickly clothed with long spreading unequal hairs, 
margins membranaceous. Petals 5, equal, imbricate, 
widely obcordate, scalloped, with creiiulate margins, 
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