Volume 3 — PLATE CXCIII. GERANIUM LINEARE. Linear-petalled Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.

MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata quinque.

Fructus rostratus, 5-coccus.

One Pointal. Five Summits.

Fruit furnished with long awns; five dry berries.

See Geranium Grandiflorum, Pl. XII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Geranium foliis lanceolatis, obtusis, subsinuatis; petalis subæqualibus, linearibus; floribus pentandris; radice tuberosa.

Geranium with leaves lance-shaped, obtuse, and a little scolloped at the edges; petals nearly equal, linear; flowers with five fertile chives; root tuberous.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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

2. The Chives and Pointal natural size.

3. The Chives spread open, magnified.

4. The Pointal, magnified.

This is another of those curious tuberous Geraniums, which have been introduced to this country, by Mr. Niven; who was sent to the Cape of Good Hope by G. Hibbert, Esq. for the sole purpose of enriching his Gardens and Herbarium, (now, we presume, the first in Europe) with the vegetable productions of that country. It has no apparent difference, in habit, to require any other treatment than has been mentioned in the former part of this work, as necessary to the rest of its congeners. Our drawing was taken, from the Clapham Collection, in July 1801; the roots having been received the preceding autumn.