slightly fringed: upper one erect, ovate, concave: the others
oblongly lanceolate, acute, spreading, their margins membranaceous.
Nectariferous tube shorter than the calyx. Petals 5, ovate, obtuse; the upper ones rather broadest,
eared and curled on the unguis, white, marked near the
base with several linear red spots or short lines : lower ones
quite white, or slightly tinged with blush. Filaments 10,
all connected at the base, every Other one bearing anthers. Germen and aristae densely clothed with woolly hairs. Style short, red, hairy at the base. Stigmas 5, purple,
spreading.
For the opportunity of giving a figure of this fine plant,
we are obliged to Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart, who was so kind
as to send us a fine-specimen of it in full bloom, from his
extensive collection of Geraniaceae at Stourhead, in March
last. It is one of the most succulent species of the genus,
and requires to be grown in a light sandy soil, and to have
but little water given it, when not in a free growing state,
and the pots should be well drained with potsherds broken
small, that the water may pass off readily. Cuttings of it
root freely, if laid by a few days before planting, to dry up
the wound ; it is otherwise very liable to rot.
As the present species is rather more tender than some
others of the tribe, it requires to be kept in the warmest
part of a good Greenhouse in Winter, particularly as it is
a very early bloomer, and the blossoms will be liable to
get blighted and drop off, if kept in too cold a situation.