PELARGONIUM tortuosum.
Twisted-petaled Stork’s-bill.
P. tortuosum, foliis cordatis subseptemlobis planis mar-
gine undulatis acute dentatis utrinque pilosis multi-
nerviis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, umbel-
lis multifloris, petalis tortuosis margine revolutis,
tubo nectarifero calyce acuminato multo breviore.
Stem frutescent, erect, branching, thickly clothed
with unequal spreading villous hairs, as are the petioles,
peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cordate, scarcely acute,
rather broader than long, generally seven-lobed, flat,
with undulate margins, sharply toothed with short teeth,
hairy on both sides, many-nerved underneath, and furrowed
on the upper side; lobes rounded, and generally
touching each other, sometimes slightly overlapping. Petioles a little flattened on the upper side, and rounded
on the lower, rather slender. Stipules broadly lanceolate,
taper-pointed, very hairy, and fringed. Umbels numerous,
many-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, rather slender.
Involucre of 6 or 7 broadly lanceolate, taper-pointed
bractes, that are unequal in size, and generally longer
than' the nectariferous tube. Pedicles very short. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments very long, lanceolate, taper
pointed, spreading, or the points a little reflexed,
about half as long again as the nectariferous tube,
sometimes twice the length. Nectariferous tube flattened
on each side, and gibbous at the base, villosely hairy. Petals 5, more or less twisted and rolled back at the
margins; the two upper ones broadest, obovate, tapering
to the base, of a bright lilac, with a dark purple