PELARGONIUM chrysanthemifolium
Chrysanthemum-leaved Stork’s-bill.
P. chrysanthemifolium, umbellis multifloris, foliis cor-
datis pinnatifido-subseptemlobatis: sinubus rotun-
datis crenatis, stipulis oblato-cordatis subdentatis
acutis, petalis inferis ligulatis, calycibus reflexis,
tubo nectarifero calyce longiori.
Stem shrubby, much branched; branches thickly
clothed with soft villous hairs. Leaves cordate, pin-
natifid or deeply 7-lobed, crenate and clothed on both
sides with short soft hairs; segments bluntly rounded,
more or less lobed, seldom entire. Petioles flattened
on the upper side and convex on the lower, dilated at
the base, thickly clothed with soft white unequal villous
hairs. Stipules cordate, wider than long, generally
toothed and ciliate, ending abruptly in an acute
point. Peduncles cylindrical, villous, as are the calyx
and nectariferous tube. Umbels from 6 to 8 flowered.
Involucre of 6 or 8 widely lanceolate concave bractes,
which soon decay. Pedicles unequal in length, scarcely
as long as the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments widely
lanceolate, bluntish, the upper one erect, the others
reflexed. Nectariferous tube a little longer than the
calyx, flattened on each side and gibbous at the base.
Petals 5, of a bright scarlet, 2 uppermost obovate,
oblique at the base, with a dark velvetty spot in the
centre, and below that are several dark lines which
are slightly branched; lower petals widely ligulate,
marked in the centre with an obscure spot. Filaments
10, united at the base, 7 bearing anthers, which were
all imperfect in our specimens. Style of a pale colour,
very hairy. Stigmas 5, reddish, reflexed.