PELARGONIUM flagrans.
Burning StorJc's-bill.
V.flagrans, foliis cordatis trilobis rotundato-obtusis undu-
latis bullato-rugosis utrinque villosis mollissimis carti-
lagineo-dentatis, stipulis ovatis acutis ciliatis, umbellis
plurifloris, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce sub-
aequali.
Stem frutescent, erect, not much branched; branches
elongated, thickly clothed with soft spreading unequal hairs.
Leaves cordate, bluntly rounded, slightly 3-lobed, very
much undulate where lobed, hollow or cucullate, rugged or
blistered, very soft to the touch, feeling like velvet, being
clothed on both sides with soft villous hairs, toothed with
numerous rigid horny teeth, that are very unequal in size,
strongly nerved underneath, the nerves branched. Petioles
flattened on the upper side and convex on the lower, a little
dilated at the base and point, thickly clothed with spreading
hairs, as are the stipules, peduncles, and pedicles. S tipules
short, broadly ovate, acute, fringed with long white
hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, a little bent. Umbels several-
flowered. Flowers of a bright flame colour. Involucre of
from 6 to 8 broadly ovate, acute, villous bractes. Pedicles
unequal in length. Calyx 5-cleft, of a purplish brown: segments
lanceolate, acute, villous: upper one much the broadest,
erect, the others reflexed, about the length of the nectariferous
tube. Petals 5, imbricate at the base; the two upper
ones broadly obovate, unequal sided, of a bright flame
colour, w’ith a large dark velvetty spot in the centre, and
numerous dark lines between it and the base, that are more
or less branched : lower petals obovately oblong, of rather