PÉLARGONIUM Newshamianum.
Miss Neivsham’s StorJc s-bill.
P. Newshamianum, pedunculis 2-3-florisve, foliis cor-
datis trilobis inæqualiter grosseque dentatis, stipulis
cordatis acutis subdentatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo
nectarifero calyce sesquilongiori.
Stem shrubby, branching; branches erect, thickly
clothed with long soft white spreading unequal hairs*
Leaves cordate, 3-lobed, unequally and deeply toothed
with sharp rigid teeth, roughish to the touch and hairy
on both sides: lobes spreading, acute. Petioles slender,
a little flattened on the upper side and convex on
the lower, thickly clothed with soft spreading hairs, as
are the peduncles, calyx, and nectariferous tube. Stipules
cordate, mucronate, generally toothed and cili-
ate. Peduncles cylindrical, 2 or 3 flowered. Involucre
of about six cordately ovate, acuminate bractes. Pedicles
unequal in length, bent upwards. Calyx 5-cleft,
segments long, lanceolate, acute, points reflexed or revolute.
Nectariferous tube about half as long again as
the calyx, flattened and slightly furrowed on each side,
a little gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two uppermost
widely obovate, slightly recurved, oblique at the
base, of a light blush, with a dark purple spot in the
centre, which joins several purple confluent lines from
the base that are slightly branched, 3 lower ones narrowly
obovate, of a light blush. Filaments 10, united
at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Germen villous. Style
red, hairy below and smooth on the upper part. Stigmas
5, purple, reflexed.
This pretty little plant is of hybrid origin, and was
raised at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from the seed of