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P L A T E CVIII.
G E R A N I U M RENIFORME.
Kidney-Jìiape-leaved Geranium.
Of Sappl. System.
Feget. 1781.
C L A S S XVL ORDER IV.
MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTEK.
MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinqué.
FRUCTUS roflratus, penta-coccus.
One PoiNTAL. Five Summits.
FRUIT furnilhed with long awns, five dry berries.
SeeGERANIUMGRANDIFLORUM. PI.XII. Vol. I,
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis reniformibus, crenato-dentatis,
tomentofisj floribus heptandris, fubquaternis,
purpuréis; caule fruticofo, fub-carnofo.
Geranium with kidney-ihaped leaves, between
fcolloped and tootlied at the edges, and
downy; flowers with feven fertile tips,
grow moftly by fours, and are purple; fterfi
ihrubby, and almoft flelhy.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement cut open, to ihew its hollow ftrudure.
2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize.
3. The Threads cut open, to ihew their number, as well as the general number offertile tips,
magnified.
4. The Pointal and Seed-buds, magnified.
FROM die Hort. Cantab, publilhed this year, by the accurate Mr. J. Donn, we learn that this fine
fpecies of Geranium was introduced to the Royal Gardens, Kew, about nine years fince: yet, till
within thefe two years, it has not been feen in any other colleaion. Our drawing was made in July
1/99. from a plant in the Clapham colleaion. This Geranium muft be treated rather as a dry-ftove
than as a common greenhoufe plant, for it affines much to G. Fulgidum, and a few others, which are
inhabitants of the fandy deferts of the more interior parts of Africa, and which require more heat than
is proper for thofe from Table Mountain, or the vicinity of the Cape. It is propagated by cuttings
made about the month of March, and placed under a fmall glafs, either in a hotbed, or in the bark
bed of thehothoufe: it may be increafed by the root likewife, and from feed which is fometimes
perfeaed, A compoft of cow dung, at leaft two years old, one part, fea fand one part, and light loam
two parts, is the moft proper for many of the tenderer forts of this genus.
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