Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, acute, all reflexed, and 
clothed with short hairs. Nectariferous tube more than 
double the length of the calyx, tinged with a brownish pur¬ 
ple, and thickly clothed with spreading hairs, that are tip¬ 
ped with a small globular transparent gland. Petals 5, 
broadly wedge-shaped, of a bright scarlet, three lower ones 
nearly double the size of the upper ones; upper ones with 
longish unguis, slightly reflexed, very slightly emarginate, 
and crenulate, strongly 2-nerved at the back: lower ones 
rounded at the points, and entire, strongly 3-nerved at the 
back, the nerves branching. Filaments 10 , straight, uni¬ 
ted at the base, 7 bearing anthers, 2 upper ones very short. 
Style pale flesh-coloured, quite smooth, and naked. Stig¬ 
mas 5, fimbriate, reflexed. 
The present plant is an old inhabitant of our Green¬ 
houses, and, we believe, was at first raised from seed that 
had been received from the Cape; but by whom, or at 
what time, we believe cannot now be ascertained: it was 
figured several years since, in Mr. Andrews’s Geraniums, 
by the name of G. crenatum , and has been known in most 
collections by the name of the Bedford Geranium, and is 
most probably a genuine species, as, we believe, is also 
C. Bentinckianum. P. bracteosum of M. Decandolle, is, 
probably, a mule from some of those, but, we believe, not 
intermixed with IP.fulgidum, as he supposes it to be, for 
we have never yet seen any mule between this genus and 
Pelargonium, nor have we ever been able to succeed in in¬ 
termixing them, although we have repeatedly tried the ex¬ 
periment. 
Our drawing was made last Autumn from a plant in 
the collection of R. H. Jenkinson, Esq.; it is rather more 
tender than C. Fothergillii; and being of rather a succu¬ 
lent nature, it requires but little water in Winter; it thrives 
well in any rich light mould, and cuttings root readily, 
planted in pots, and placed in a sheltered situation. 
