PELARGONIUM Darnleyanum.
The Earl of Darnley’s Stork’s-bill.
P. Darnleyanum, caule erecto villoso, foliis cordatis
acutis undulatis septemlobis grosse dentatis cucul-
latis margine subincurvis utrinque molliter pilosis,
stipulis elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis, umbellis
multifloris multibracteatis, calycibus pedicellis pep
dunculisque villosis, tubo nectarifero calyce subse-
quali, stylo basi ad medium piloso.
Stem frutescent, somewhat succulent, erect, not
much branched, thickly clothed with long spreading
villous hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, bractes, and
calyx. Leaves heart-shaped, acute, concave, seven-lo-
bed, deeply toothed, with unequal, large, sharp, rigid
teeth, thickly clothed with short soft hairs on both sides ;
strongly penninerved underneath, the nerves much
branched, and thickly clothed with oles villous hairs. Peti
flattened and furrowed on the upper side, and convex
below. Stipules lanceolate, very long, taper-pointed,
broadest at the base, regularly tapering upwards,
thickly clothed with villous hairs, and fringed at the
edges. Peduncles generally very long, thickened at the
base, cylindrical. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre of
numerous lanceolate, taper-pointed bractes. Pedicles a
little longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments
lanceolate, acute, keeled : upper one broadest,
three-nerved, erect, the others more or less reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of the calyx, flattened
on each side, a little gibbous at the base, villosely
hairy. Petals 5, of a dark crimson: the two upper ones
broadest, obovate, somewhat unequal-sided, elegantly
marked with several shortly branching dark velvet lines,
strongly 2-nerved at the back : lower ones also obovate,
but narrower, of rather a lighter crimson, also 2-nerved
at the back. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing
anthers, which in our plant were all imperfect.