PELARGONIUM Victorianum.
Princess Alexandrina Victoria's Stork's-bill.
P. Victorianum, caule carnoL oso lsevi; ramis villo-
sis, foliis reniformibus basi uninatis trilobis obtuse
dentatis undulatis margine subreflexis sericeo-pubescen-
tibus subcanescentibus: lobis sublobatis, umbellis sub-
sexfloris, petalis superioribus obcordatis: inferioribus
cuneatis, tubo nectarifero calyce 3-4-plo longiore.
Stem frutescent, succulent, smooth and glossy, branching
: branches rather flexuose, thickly clothed with spreading
villous white hairs, that are of various lengths. Leaves
kidney-shaped, tapering to the base, deeply 3-lobed, the
points and margins more or less reflexed, very much undulate,
and toothed with unequal, broadish, blunt, rigid teeth,
underneath strongly nerved, the nerves branched; clothed
on both sides with short soft silky hairs, which give a
white appearance, particularly to the young leaves; the
margins fringed: lobes more or less lobed. Petioles
slightly flattened on the upper side, channelled near the
leaf, rounded on the lower side, a little swollen at the base,
thickly clothed with spreading villous hairs. Stipules ovate,
acute, pubescent, remaining persistent for a long time, but
at length dropping off. Flowering-branch lengthening
out, and becoming slender, densely villous, the peduncles
axillary or opposite to a leaf, also villous. Umbel 6-flow-
ered in our plant, which appears to be the general number. Involucre of 6 lanceolate, acute, concave, woolly bractes. Pedicles scarcely so long as the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the
segments lanceolate, scarcely acute, densely clothed with
villous hairs, the upper one nearly double the size of the
others, and erect: the others all reflexed. Petals 5, of a
bright salmon colour, the two upper ones broadest, obcor