PELARGONIUM Hillianum.
Hill's Stork's-bill.
P. Hillianum, foliis cordatis acutis sublobatis argute
insequaliter dentatis glabriusculis, stipulis lanceo-
lato-ovatis acuminatis eiliatis, umbellis 4-5-floris,
pedicellis bracteis subasqualibus, tubo nectarifero
calyce subaequali, stylo glaberrimo.
Stem frutescent, erect, branching: branches clothed
with spreading unequal hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles,
and calyx. Leaves rather succulent, cordate,
acute, very slightly lobed, deeply but unequally toothed,
with sharp rigid teeth, of a smoothish rather glossy
appearance, though clothed with short hairs on both
sides, strongly nerved underneath, the nerves terminating
in the longest teeth. Petioles flattened on the
upper side and convex below, a little thickened and
widened at the base. Stipules ovate, or lanceolately
ovate, tapering to a long slender point, generally keeled,
bels sometimes toothed, Peduncles very hairy and fringed. Um
4 or 5-flowered. cylindrical, a little
thickened and transparent at the base. Involucre of 6
bractes, that are oblongly lanceolate, cuspidate at the
points, hairy and fringed. Pedicles about the length of
the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments long, lanceolate,
taper-pointed, keeled; the upper one rather
largest, erect; the others spreading or more or less reflexed.
Petals 5, pure white, very large and broad:
the two upper ones obovate, unequal sided, marked
with a handsome large dark purple spot that is attenuated
downwards, and from which branch some short