PELARGONIUM Speculum.
Looking-glass spotted Storlcs-bill.
P. Speculum, foliis rotundo-reniformibus subcucullatis
insequaliter dentatis: superioribus subquinquelobis,
stipulis ovatis acuminatis, pedicellis bracteis paulo
longioribus, umbellis plurifloris, petalis omnibus
obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce breviore, stylo
hirsuto.
Stem frutescent, stout, erect, not much branched : branches thickly clothed with long,' spreading, unequal,
villous hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves large, broader than long, dark green, of a round
kidney shape, more or less hollow on the upper side,
clothed with short hairs on both sides, and toothed with
broad unequal teeth, numerously nerved underneath,
the nerves much branched: lower ones scarcely lobed:
the upper ones more or less 5-lobed, more acute, and
toothed with sharper teeth. Petioles flattened on the
upper side and rounded on the lower, widened a little
at the base. Stipules ovate, taper-pointed, fringed with
long hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, thickened at the base. Umbels several-flowered. Involucre of 6 ovate, acute,
villous bractes. Pedicles a little longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft: the segments long, lanceolate, taper-
pointed, tinged with a purplish brown, the upper one
erect, the others more or less tube reflexed. Nectariferous unequal in length, scarcely so long as the calyx. Petals 5, all obovate: the two upper ones broadest,
very much attenuated towards the base, and unequalsided,
of a bright red, with a dark velvetty spot in the