ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Monogyna. Stigmata 5. Fructus rostratus, 5-coccus.
One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furnished with long awns, 5 dry berries.
See Geranium Grandiflorum, Plate XII.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium pedunculis multifloris; calycibus monophyllis, foliis orbiculatis, ferratis rigidis, petiolis longissimis; caule herbaceo.
Geranium, the fruit-stalks supporting many flowers; cups of one leaf; the leaves round, sawed, and harsh, with very long foot-stalks; stem herbaceous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement cut open, to shew its tubular shape to its base.
2. The Chives, and Pointal, natural size.
3. The Pointal, magnified.
This truly elegant species of Geranium was introduced to us from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1795; being raised from seeds, received from thence, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, in whose collection it flowered for the first time this year, about the latter end of May, and from which specimen this figure was taken. It is one of those that have in general seven fertile tips, and, therefore, must be placed under Mr. L’Heritier’s genus Pelargonium, by those who follow his new arrangement. It is a hardy plant, and requires only a common greenhouse for its protection, where it will seed; which seems to be the readiest mode of propagating it, as it produces but very few branches; thriving best in rich earth.[Pg 114]