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P L A T E CCCLIV.
G E R A N I U M REVOLUTUM.
Reflex floral-leaved Geraìiium.
C L A S S XVL ORDER IV.
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinqué. Frudlus
roftratus; pentacoccus.
ONE POINTAL. Five Summits. Fruit fumiihed
with long awns five dry berries.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis cordatis, obtufis, nervofis, faspe
auriculatisj pedunculis multifloris; involucris
polyphyllisj foliolis revolutis j floribus
pentandrisj radice tuberofa.
Geranium with heart-iliaped leaves, obtufe,
nerved and often eared j flower-ftems manyflowered
J fence many-leaved, leaflets rolled
back; flowers with five fertile chivesj root
tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement cut open to ihew its tubular flru£lure.
2. The Chives and Pointal.
3. The Chives, fpread open, magnified.
4. The Pointal, magnified.
T H I S very fine Geranium is, as yet, only in the Clapham Colledion; it has no properties, which regard
its culture or propagation, diiFering from the reft of its congeners; was fent from the Cape, by
Mr. Niven, in 1800. Flowers in July. The leaves of this fpecies have moft affinity, in appearance,
to thofe of G. melananthum, particularly in being like them frequently eared, and even fometimes
•winged. We have named it, fpecifically, from the Angular revolute character of the involucrum, at
the bafe of each bunch of flowers.