Volume 4 — PLATE CCXLVI. GERANIUM INCRASSATUM. Fleshy-leaved Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.

MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata quinque.

Fructus rostratus, penta-coccus.

One Pointal. Five Summits.

Fruit furnished with long awns, five dry berries.

See Geranium grandiflorum. Pl. XII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Geranium foliis carnosis, inequaliter pinnatis seu lobatis, laciniis tridentatis, obtusis; corollis saturate rubris, striatis; floribus pentandris; radice tuberosa.

Geranium with fleshy leaves, unequally winged or lobed, segments three-toothed, blunt; blossoms of a deep red, and streaked; flowers with five fertile tips; root tuberous.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement cut open, to shew its tubular structure.

2. The Chives spread open.

3. The Pointal, natural size, with the summits detached, magnified.

Our figure, which exhibits a small plant, of this superb species of tuberous Geranium, was taken in the month of June, this year, 1802, at Messrs. Colville’s nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea, and where it is still in high perfection, this present month of July. We have every reason to believe, from all the authorities we are masters of, that this plant has not, till now, flowered in Europe. It forms a very large tuberous root, by the dividing of which it is to be propagated; as we suspect the seeds will not ripen on this species more than most of its congeners. It has the same manner with the rest of the tuberous species, losing its leaves in winter, when they are subject to rot, if much watered. Appears to flourish in sandy peat, with a small portion of rotten dung.