PELARGONIUM Burnettianum.
Miss Burnett's Storks-bill.
P. Burnettianum, villoso-hirsuta, foliis cordatis acutis un-
dulatis obsolete quinquelobis cartilagineo-dentatis, sti-
pulis late ovatis dentatis villoso-ciliatis, umbellis 3-4-
floris, petalis obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce subee-
quali.
Stem frutescent, erect, branched; every part of the plant,
except the corolla, thickly clothed'with spreading villous
hairs. Leaves cordate, acute, slightly 5-lobed, undulate, and
toothed with numerous rigid horny teeth, the margins fringed,
points a little recurved. Petioles flattened on the upper’
side, and convex on the lower, widened at the base. Stipules broadly ovate, acute, toothed, villous, and fringed
with woolly hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, in our specimen
3 and 4-flowered. Involucre of 6 broadly lanceolate, taper-
pointed, bluntly keeled bractes, more des or less purple. P eli
about the length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments
purple, the upper one ovately lanceolate, acute, erect, the
otuthbeers narrower, and their points reflexed. Nectariferous about the length of the calyx, much flattened on both
sides, and gibbous at the base, purple. Petals 5, all obo-
vate, the two upper ones very broad, unequal sided, dark
crimson, with a dark velvetty patch in the centre, and a
forked light line between it and the base, and numerous
dark lines which branch all over the petals, margins a little
curved inwards, and stained with brown : lower petals of a
dark reddish purple, veined with light branching veins. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Germen woolly. Style purple, hairy about halt way up,
the upper part smooth. Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed.
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