PELARGONIUM Southcoteanum.
Miss Southcote’s Starlc's-bill.
P. Southcoteanum, ramis patulis villosis, foliis cordatis
acutis quinquelobis undulato-plicatis inaequaliter denta-
tis utrinque villosis, stipulis cordato-ovatis acuminatis
subdentatis villoso-ciliatis, pedunculis 3-4-floris, caly-
cibus revolutis, petalis flaccidis obovatis, tubo nectari-
fero calyce sesquilongiore.
Pelargonium Southcoteanum. Swt. hart,Golv. catal. edit. 3. p. 27. col. 2. hrit.p. 84. n. 397.
Stem shrubby, villous, branching: branches spreading,
thickly clothed with long spreading, unequal, villous hairs,
as is every other part of the plant except the corolla. Leaves
cordate, acute, five-lobed, very much undulate or plaited,
sharply but unequally toothed with sharp rigid teeth, thickly
clothed on both sides with spreading villous hairs. Petioles
flattened on the upper side, and convex on the lower, widened
at the base. Stipules cordately ovate, taper-pointed,
often toothed, villous, and ciliate. Peduncles cylindrical, 3 or 4-flowered. Involucre of 6 ovate, acute, villosely fringed
bractes, which are sometimes toothed. Pedicles longer
than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, densely villous, segments
all revolute, when the flower is expanded, of a purplish
brown, upper one broadest, ovate: the others lanceolate
and acute. Nectariferous tube about half as long again
as the calyx, very broad, and flattened on each side, gibbous
at the base. Petals 5, all obovate, rather flaccid, spreading
; two upper ones nearly double the breadth of the others,
of a bright flame colour, light round the margins, and a
dark patch in the centre, below which are numerous dark
lines, more or less branched: at the back are two strong
nerves, much branched on the upper part: lower petals of