PELARGONIUM Hesilrigoese.
Lady Hesilrige's Stork's-bill.
P. Hesilrigece, foliis rotundato-cordatis lobatis rugosis
cartilagineo-dentatis utrinque pilosis: dentibus fasci-
culato-pilosis, stipulis ovatis acutis, umbellis multifloris,
petalis obovatis patentibus superioribus reflexis, tubo
nectarifero calyce villoso subaequali aut parum breviore.
Pelargonium Hesilrigeas. Swt. hort. brit. p. 84. n. 402.
Stem shrubby, villous, and clothed with a brown cracked
bark, not much branched : branches short, thickly crowded
with leaves, and clothed with spreading unequal villous hairs,
and short down underneath. Leaves more or less lobed,
cordate, rugged, and uneven, unequally toothed, with rigid
cartilaginous teeth, which are each tipped with a bunch of
hairs, margins very much undulate, hairy on both sides, underneath
strongly and numerously nerved; sinuses overlapping
each other at the base. Petioles short, much flattened
and furrowed on the upper side, widened at the base, vil-
losely hairy. Stipules ovate, acute, villous, and fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, villosely hairy, scarcely strong
enough to support the weight of the flowers. Involucre of
numerous ovate, acute, concave, villous bractes. Pedicles
longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, densely clothed with
villous hairs, more or less tinged with a brownish purple;
upper segment broadly ovate, erect, the others broadly lanceolate,
reflexed. Petals 5, a little reflexed, all obovate, the
upper ones broadest, becoming suddenly narrow above the
middle, and gradually becoming narrower to the base;
strongly 2-nerved at the back, of a dark crimson purple,
pencilled with dark velvet marks, branched one amongst
the other: lower ones of a lighter colour, strongly 3 or 4-