G E R A N I U M PI C T U M,
Painted-flowered Geranium.
CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
MONOGYNA. Stigmata 5 . Fructus roltratus, j[ ONEPOINTAL. Five Summits. Fruit furnifhed
penta-coccus. wilh lung awns, five dry berries:
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S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
G e r a n i um foliis cordato-oblongis, 'obtufis, ine
q u a l i t e r incifis, tomentolis, humi ad preffis
$ corolla alba, petalis l a p e r i o r i b u s profundè
fupra medium rubro m a c u l a t i s ; Maminibus
t e p t em fertilibus; radice tuberoia.
G e r a n i um with oblong h e a r t - l l i a p e d leaves,
b l u n t , unequally galbed, downy, and Jyi
n g clofe to t h e ground; bloflbm white;
the upper petals deeply marked with red
about the middle; feven fertile chives;
root tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. T h e Empalement.
2. T h e Chives and Pointal, magnified.
3 . The Chives fpread open, magnified.
4. T h e Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified.
N o Genus of Plants claims our notice, for its beauty, more than Geranium, and this fpecies, cert
a i n l y , r a n k s amongft the foremen. It is a n a t i v e of t h e Cape of Good Hope, and we believe only to
be found in the Clapham Collection; where, our figure was taken in April this year, from a plant,
t h e bulb or root of which bad been received t h e preceding a u t u m n . It is nearly the only one'
amongft twenty two fpecies of the tuberous kind, all having irregular petalled blolTbms and tubular
cups, of which we pollers drawings, that has feven fertile chives; the greater number have two, four,
or five. It appears to flourilh under t h e treatment given it by M r . Allen, which is, by k e e p i n g it in
fandy peat, on a fhelf, very d r y , in t h e green-houfe. The propagation appears to be the fame for
t h i s , as t h e o t h e r tuberous kinds, that is, b y t h e root.