PELARGONIUM pullaceum.
Dark brown Stork’s-bill.
P. pullaceum, foliis cordato-ovatis acutiusculis subquin-
quelobis dentatis utrinque pilosis, stipulis ovato-
lanceolatis acutis, umbellis 3-5-floris, pedicellis
bracteis longioribus, calycibus reflexis, tubo necta-
rifero calyce subasquali, stylo utrinque hirsuto.
A pretty little dwarf bushy plant: branches erect,
rather slender, thickly clothed with unequal woolly
hairs. Leaves cordately ovate, rather acute, a little
hollow on the upper side, unequally 5 or 7-lobed, the
upper ones only 3-lobed, unequally jagged, and toothed
with unequal teeth, clothed with short hairs on both
sides : lobes distinct, spreading. Petioles flattened and
furrowed a little on the upper side, convex below, a
little dilated at the base, thickly clothed with villous
hairs. Stipules ovately lanceolate, broad at the base,
tapering to a slender point, villous and fringed. Umbels
3 to 5-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, thickly
clothed with unequal soft hairs. Involucre of 6 bractes,
that are lanceolate, acute, villous, spreading, or the
points slightly reflexed. Pedicles longer than the bractes.
Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, acute, villosely
hairy, all reflexed, the upper ones nearly double the
size of the others. Nectariferous tube about the length
of the calyx, flattened on each side, and gibbous at the
base. Petals 5 ; the two upper ones obovate, unequal
sided, and attenuated towards the base, of a dark
brown colour, striped with rather darker lines: lower
ones ligulate, of an orangy red, marked from the base
with several dark lines. Filaments 10, connected at the