PELARGONIUM Russellianum.
Russell’s Stork’s-bill.
P. Russellianum, foliis cordatis acutis quinquelobis uudu-
latis insequaliter cartilagineo-dentatis molliter pubes-
centibas, stipulis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis ciliatis,
umbellis plurifloris, petalis obovatis, tubo nectarifero
calyce parum longiore.
Stem frutescent, stiff, and branched, making a short
bushy plant: branches stout, erect or slightly spreading,
thickly clothed with unequal villous hairs, as are the petioles,
peduncles, and nectariferous tube. Leaves cordate,
acute, 5-lobed, very much undulate, and toothed with numerous
large rigid teeth, which are unequal in size, and terminated
in hard cartilaginous points. Petioles broad, and
furrowed on the upper side, and rounded on the low'er, widened
at the base. Stipules long, broadly lanceolate, broad
at the base, and terminated in a long taper point, sometimes
toothed, ciliate. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less
bent. Umbels five to seven-flowered. Involucre of 6 or 7
lanceolate, acute, villous bractes. Pedicles scarcely as long
as the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, taper
pointed, upper one largest, erect, keeled, the others
narrower, and reflexed. Petals 5, all obovate, the two upper
ones much broadest, of a bright scarlet, marked with
numerous branching black lines, but no spot; lower petals
rather lighter, purplish at the base, 5-nerved at the back,
the nerves branched. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7
bearing anthers, which in our specimens were all sterile. Style purple, smooth, or a few straggling hairs near the
base. Stigmas 5, dark purple, the points revolute.
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