PELARGONIUM saturatum.
Saturated Stork’s-bill.
P. saturatum, foliis undulatis acutis inaequaliter rigide
dentatis basi truncatis cuneatisve apice lobisque
subreflexis: inferioribus quinquelobis : superioribus
trilobis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis undulatis longe
acuminatis, umbellis multifloris, lyce subaequali. tubo nectarifero ca-
Stem frutescent, branching: branches spreading, thickly
clothed with unequal spreading villous hairs, as are
the petioles, peduncles, calyx, and nectariferous tube. Leaves broader than long, very much undulate, acute,
sharply toothed with very unequal rigid teeth, very hairy
on both sides, strongly three-nerved from the base, the
nerves much branched: lower ones 5-lobed, truncate at
the base, the lobes and points a little reflexed: upper
ones 3-lobed, deeper and sharper toothed, cuneate at
the base. Petioles flattened a little on the upper side
and rounded on the lower, widened and thickened at the
base. Stipules broadly or ovately lanceolate, tapering to
a long slender point, very much undulate, villous, and
fringed. Umbels 6 to 8-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical,
rpuch swollen at the base. Involucre of 6 bractfes, gene-
rally connected into 2 sets at the base: bractes lanceolate,
acute, fringed, tinged with purple. Pedicles about
the length of, or scarcely so long as the bractes. Calyx
5-cleft; segments lanceolate, acute, the points reflexed,
tuupbpeer one 3-nerved, the others keeled. Nectariferous variable in length, generally about the length of the
calyx. Petals 5; the 2 upper ones obovate, unequal
sided, of a dark scarlet, with a large dark velvetty patch
m vtohLe . cie.n tre, and numerouLs dark lines from the base