PELARGONIUM Drake*.
Mrs. Drake s Stork's-bill.
P. Drakeve, foliis cordato-reniformibus 3-5-lobisutrinque
villosis mollissimis inaequaliter acute dentatis: lobis
divaricatis dilatatis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis sub-
dentatis, umbellis subquadrifloris, petalis omnibus
obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce subsequali, stylo
hirsuto.
Stem frutescent, erect, branching, thickly clothed
with spreading white hairs, very unequal in length. Leaves cordately kidney-formed, 3 to 5-lobed, villosely
hairy on both sides, very soft to the touch, feeling like
soft cloth, unequally toothed with sharp teeth, strongly
and numerously nerved underneath, the nerves proceeding
from the base, simple about half way up, the upper
part branching: lobes deep, very broad and dilated at
the ends, dark green on the upper side, and paler underneath.
Petioles flattened and furrowed on the upper
side, thickly clothed with long white unequal hairs, as
are the peduncles, pedicles, and calyx. Stipules ovate
or broadly lanceolate, taper-pointed, sometimes toothed,
villosely hairy. Umbels generally cles 4-flowered. Pedun
cylindrical, erect. Involucre of 6 ovate, acute, villous
bractes. Pedicles about the length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, tinged with purple, villous: upper segment
broadest, ovately lanceolate, acute, erect; the
others variable in size, some broadly, others narrowly
lanceolate, acute, spreading at the points when the
flowers are expanded. Petals 5, all obovate : the two
upper ones much the broadest, slightly retuse at the
points, tapering to the base, which is unequal-sided,