Volume 6 — PLATE CCCLXVI.

GERANIUM BARBATUM. Var. Undulatum.

Bearded-leaved Geranium. Var. Waved-petalled.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.

MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata quinque. Fructus rostratus, pentacoccus.

One Pointal. Five summits. Fruit furnished with long awns, five dry berries,

SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.

Geranium. Foliis pinnatis, incisuris pinnarum aristatis barbatisque, petalis omnibus flavicantibus, rubro-notatis undulatisque.

Geranium. With winged leaves, the segments aristated and bearded, all the petals yellowish, marked with red, and undulated.

Descriptio. Pinnæ foliorum inæqualiter incisæ, incissuris acuminatis, barbatisque. Scapus ramosus. Flores umbellati. Petala omnia linearia, obtusa, elongata, recurvata, valde undulata, flavicantia. basi fere ad medium lætissime rubra. Stamina fertilia quinque.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This plant was sent from the Cape to the collection of George Hibbert, Esq. at Clapham, where our drawing was taken in September; it is no more than a variety, although a very beautiful one, of the Geranium barbatum of this work, of which one variety has already been figured on plate 323. It is a green-house plant, and requires the same treatment as the other tuberous rooted species.