bractes, which are sometimes toothed and mucronate. 
Pedicles longer than the bractes or the nectariferous 
tube. Calyx 5-cleft ; segments lanceolate, acute, erect. 
Nectariferous tube short, but unequal in length, some- 
times wanting altogether, flattened on each side and 
gibbous at the base, not half the length of the calyx. 
Petals five, oblongly ovate and rounded at the points, 
white, or slightly tinged with pink ; the two upper- 
tnost rather widest, and slightly marked at the base 
with reddish lines. Filaments 10, united at the base, 
seven bearing anthers. Pollen orange-coloured. Ger- 
men villous. Style of a light red, very hairy. Stigmas 
5, red and revolute. 
The present plant is an old inhabitant in our green- 
l^ouses, and was raised from seed received from the 
Cape by Mr. Colvill several years ago. It has gene- 
rally passed in our collections under the name of P. 
farmosum, and P. suipe^'hum, and we have no doubt 
but it is the V.formosujn of Desfontaines, and also the 
P. formosissimum of Persoon.. It varies with flowers 
more or less striated, and the petals more or less 
spreading; the nectariferous tube is also very variable 
in its length, sometimes altogether wanting. 
M. Decandolle, in his Prodromus, has given the 
above as synonyms to our P. Boylecs, which is a 
very dilferent plant, though we believe one of its 
parents was the present, as we mentioned when we 
published it. 
ERRATA. 
In our last Number, folio 210, line 1 and 3 I'elar^onium 
fuscatum, read Pelargonium fusciflorum, there being already a 
V.fuscatum figured by Jacquin. 
