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PELARGONIUM laxiflorum. 
Spreading -mnhelled Stork^s-hill. 
P. laxiflorum^ umbellis subquinquefloris, foliis cordatis 
quinquelobis undulatis insequaliter grosseque den- 
tatis glabriusculis carnosis rigidis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce duplo longiore. 
Stem shrubby, not much branched, rather succulent, 
thickly clothed with soft villous hairs, as are the 
petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cordate, thick, 
and fleshy, undulate, deeply divided into three lobes : 
upper lobe 3-lobed, lower ones 2-lobed; deeply but 
unequally toothed, smoothish or thinly pubescent. 
Petioles thick, slightly flattened on the upper and con- 
vex on the lower side. Peduncles generally 5 -flowered. 
Involucre of several ovate, acute, villous bractes. Pe- 
dicles about the length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft : 
upper segment, ovate, keeled, erect ; the others broadly 
lanceolate, reflexed. Nectariferous tube about double 
the length of the calyx. Petals 5, the two upper 
ones roundly obovate, oblique at the base, of a bright 
scarlet, with a purple spot in the centre, and numerous 
dark lines from the base that branch in various direc- 
tions; lower petals ligulate, spreading. Filaments 
10, united at the base, seven bearing anthers. Style 
flesh-coloured, hairy at the base, and smooth upwards. 
Stigmas 5, reflexed. 
This fine flowering plant is of hybrid origin, and 
was raised by Mr. Smith from a seed of P. ignescens, 
that had been set with the pollen of one of the large 
growing sorts. Our drawing was taken from a fine 
plant, last autumn, in the collection of the Earl of 
Liverpool, Coombe Wood, and we believe it is at pre- 
