1. The Blossom cut open. 2. One Petal of the Blossom and its Chive, magnified. 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud. 4. A Capsule with ripe Seeds. From a plant in the collection of J. Vere, Esq. Kensington Gore, our drawing was made, this year, early in the month of May; and from an accurate scrutiny, are inclined to think it might be considered as a new genus; for certainly it does not well affine to the one here assigned it, in several instances; but as our professed principles are, as rarely as possible, to increase the number of genera, we have retained it under Allium. The flowers of this plant are fragrant in the extreme, at night; so much so, that one is sufficient to scent a large room; the flavour something like the Heliotrope. Being a native of Barbadoes, from whence it was sent by Mr. J. Ellcock in 1791, to Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, it requires the heat of a hothouse, where, without the assistance of the bark bed, it will flower, and increase from the bulb abundantly. [Illustration] PLATE CVIII. GERANIUM RENIFORME. _Kidney-shape-leaved Geranium._ CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. _Of Suppl. system. Veget. 1781._ _MONODELPHIA 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 reniformibus, crenato-dentatis, tomentosis; floribus heptandris, subquaternis, purpureis; caule fruticoso, sub-carnoso. Geranium with kidney-shaped leaves, between scolloped and toothed at the edges, and downy; flowers with seven fertile tips, grow mostly by fours, and are purple; stem shrubby, and almost fleshy. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to shew its hollow structure. 2. The Chives and Pointal, natural size. 3. The Threads cut open, to shew their number, as well as the general number of fertile tips, magnified. 4. The Pointal and Seed-buds, magnified.