PELARGONIUM TXlGj^ £1
Grand-flowered St orJe s-bill•
P. megalanthum, foliis rotundato-reniformibus undulatis
acute dentatis glabriusculis : nervis subtus pilosis, sti-
pulis ovatis acutis subdentatis ciliatis, umbellis 4-5-flo-
ris, petalis imbricatis, tubo nectarifero calyce reflexo
duplo breviore.
A strong growing erect bushy plant; branches a little
flexuose, thickly clothed with unequal spreading long white
hairs. Leaves large, roundly reniform or kidney-shaped,
not lobed, or the upper ones very slightly so, very much
undulate, and toothed with numerous sharp teeth, that are
terminated in rigid yellowish horny points, smoothish and
glossy on the upper side; but thinly clothed with spreading
slender hairs, strongly nerved underneath, the nerves thickly
clothed with hairs, margins fringed with spreading hairs :
upper leaves narrower, inclining to ovate, rather cuneate at
the base, slightly lobed, and terminated by a sharp mucro. Petioles flattened and slightly furrowed on the upper side,
and rounded on the lower, dilated at the base, clothed with
unequal spreading hairs. Stipules ovate, acute, often toothed,
much veined, and fringed w'ith long hairs. Umbels 4 or
5-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less bent, very
hairy. Involucre of six very broad, ovate bractes, that are
terminated by a sharp mucro, and fringed with long hairs. Pedicles long and slender, villosely hairy. Calyx 5-cleft,
the segments long, lanceolate, taper-pointed, villosely hairy,
tinged with purple, upper one largest, when in flower the
points of all reflexed. Petals 5, very large and broad,
obovately ovate, a little uneven at the points, but scarcely
crenulate : two upper ones rather largest, a little unequal
sided, of a purplish pink, with a white patch from the base,