PELARGONIUM Harewoodise.
The Countess of Harewood's Stork’s-bill.
P. Harewoodice, foliis cordatis multilobis punctatis argute
cartilagineo-dentatis glabriusculis basi trinerviis, stipulis
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, umbellis multifloris, tubo
nectarifero calyce raulto breviore.
Stem frutescent, branching: branches more or less
flexuose, of a glossy green, but dotted with innumerable
white specks, and clothed with unequal spreading hairs. Leaves cordate, more or less undulate, lobed with numerous
sharp lobes, sharply toothed with rigid horny teeth
that are very unequal in size, strongly three-nerved from
the base, the nerves much branched, of a dark glossy green
and smooth, but dotted all over with numerous minute
white dots, slightly hairy. Petioles flattened on the upper
side and convex on the lower, dilated at the base, thickly
clothed with short hairs. Stipules ovate or ovately lanceolate,
taper-pointed and fringed. Umbels many-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less bent, hairy. Involucre
of 6 lanceolate, taper-pointed, keeled bractes, which are
fringed with long hairs. Pedicles generally longer than
the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, erect,
tapering to a long slender brown point, striated and keeled,
the margins densely fringed with long spreading hairs. Nectariferous tube short, not half the length of the calyx,
gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two upper ones obovate,
very unequal sided, the inner side as if cut away its whole
length, of a darkish red, with a velvetty spot in the centre,
and numerous dark lines branching all over the petals:
lower ones broadly ligulate, of rather a lighter colour, also
marked with three or four dark lines. Filaments 10, con-
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