The Genus Brunsfelsia (by Plumier so named, in honour of Otho Brunsfels a monk, the first who edited in 1530 a Botanical work with good figures, it contained 238 plates) has undergone a very necessary revision since the days of Linnæus; indeed, it appears singular that Father Plumier, from whom Linnæus quotes his Generic character, should have committed so great an oversight, as to describe it with five chives; a feature scarcely to be expected, from a sport of nature, in plants of this Class. So however it is on record, and the fifth Class of the Gen. and Spe. Plant, and of the Syst. Nat. tom. ii. each includes this Genus; from which, we should be induced to think he had designed some other plant; if the figure, and the rest of the description, did not confirm it. Schreber, in his Gen. Plant, has likewise an observation, that the fruit should be named a capsule, rather than a berry; as given by Linnæus, Miller, and Swartz; his reason, that it splits determinately, by a suture, from the top to the base. Our species, is the third now in Britain; they are all natives of the West India Islands. The 1st B. americana has been long an inhabitant of our hothouses; the 2d B. maculata is but little known to most, though long cultivated here; as it has been treated as a variety of the first species, notwithstanding the strong specific difference, in the shape of the leaves and blossoms; which in the B. maculata, are beautifully marked at the base, and as large as the undulata; the leaves inversely egg-shaped and more downy. The present plant seldom grows more than four feet high, flowers freely about March, is very sweet scented, and is easily propagated by cuttings. It was first sent to England in the year 1784 by Mr. Elcock from the Island of Barbadoes, to Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith. Our drawing was made from a plant in the Clapham Collection, in March 1800. It should be planted in rich earth. [Illustration] PLATE CLXVIII. GERANIUM PICTUM. _Painted-flowered Geranium._ CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. _MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA._ Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata 5, 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 cordato-oblongis, obtusis, inequaliter incisis, tomentosis, humi adpressis; corolla alba, petalis superioribus profundè supra medium rubro maculatis; staminibus septem fertilibus; radice tuberosa. Geranium with oblong heart-shaped leaves, blunt, unequally gashed, downy, and lying close to the ground; blossom white; the upper petals deeply marked with red about the middle; seven fertile chives; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 3. The Chives spread open, magnified. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified.