PELARGONIUM Bluntianimi.
Miss Blunt's Stork’s-bill.
P. Bluntianum, villoso-pilosus, foliis cordatis 7-9-lobis
undulatis rigide dentatis ciliatis apice reflexis, sti-
pulis ovatis acutis subdentatis, umbellis plurifloris,
tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali, stylo ad medium
hirsuto.
Stem frutescent, erect, thickly clothed with spreading
villous white hairs, as is every other part of the plant
except the corolla. Leaves cordate at the base, 7 to 9-
lobed, very much undulate, generally acute, the point
and some of the lobes more or less reflexed, toothed
with numerous broadish, rigid teeth, terminated with
brown points, fringed at the margins, underneath very
strongly nerved. Petioles flattened a little on the upper
side and rounded below, dilated a little at the base. Stipules ovate, acute, generally toothed. Peduncles cylindrical,
a little swollen at the base. Umbels 5 or 6-
flowered. Involucre of 6 oblongly lanceolate, acute,
fringed bractes. Pedicles about the length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, of a purplish brown; the segments lanceolate,
acute, keeled, and fringed, the upper one
broadest, erect, the others spreading, or more or less
reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of the
calyx, much flattened on both sides, and gibbous at
the base, tinged more or less with purple. Petals 5;
the two upper ones obovate, unequal sided, of a purplish
crimson, strongly veined at the back, with numerous
black lines on the inside from the base to above
half way up, that branch in all directions: lower petals
oblong, of rather a lighter colour, also strongly four-
veined at the back. Filaments 10, connected at the