G E R A N I U M ROSEÜM.
Rojy Geranium.
CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
M O N O G Y N A . Stigmata quinque. Fru£tus roft
r a t u s , penta-coccus.
O N E P O I N T A L . Five Summits. Fruit furniihed
with long awns, five dry berries.
S e e G E H A N I U M G S A N D I F L O H U M . P I . X I I . V o l . I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
G e r a n i um foliis incifo-lobatis, tomentoiis, lobis
c r e n a t i s , obtufis; pedunculis multifloris;
floribus ere&is, confertis, rofeis, pentand
r i s ; calycibus monophyllis; radice tuberofa.
G e r a n i um with deeply-galhed, lobed, downy
leaves, t h e lobes lcollopedand b l u n t ; flowerstems
many flowered; the flowers erect,
crowded, role-coloured and with five tips;
cups one-leaved; root tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. T h e Empalement, with its hollow tube cut open.
2. T h e Chives cut open.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits.
A B O U T the year 1 7 9 4 , t h i s fpecies of Geranium was firft introduced to t h e Royal Gardens, Kew, by
Mr. Francis Maffon, from the Cape of Good Hope. Of all the tuberous kind, this is, certainly, the
moft fpecions yet in E n g l a n d ; it flowers generally about March, in which month, our drawing was
made, from a fpecimen in the n u r f e r y of Mr. J . Colville, K i n g ' s Road, Chelfea. Mr. Colville informs
u s , that the propagation is very difficult, and only to be performed by the r o o t ; as t h e plant does not
produce a n y branches, and t h a t the feeds do not r i p e n ; he keeps it in a m i x t u r e of r o t t e n leaves, and
fandy peat, in w h i c h , it has every appearance of l u x u r i a n t health.