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PELARGONIUM phoeniceum. 
Reddish purple Stork' s-hill. 
P. phoeniceum, umbellis plurifloris, foliis rotundato-re- 
niformibus undulatis cucullatis rugosis villosis inse- 
qualiter dentatis, stipulis cordato-ovatis acutis, 
calycibus villosissimis, tubo nectarifero calyce pa- 
rum breviore. , 
Stem erect, branching ; branches spreading, thickly 
clothed with long white villous hairs, as are the peti- 
oles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves roundly-reniforrn, 
undulate, cucuUate, rigid, rugose, thickly clothed with 
short villous hairs, and toothed with numerous unequal 
teeth. Petioles gradually tapering upwards, flattened 
and furrowed on the upper side and convex on the 
lower, a little widened at the base. Stipules cordate, 
or broadly ovate, acute, ciliate. Peduncles cylindrical^ 
several-flowered. Involucre of six ovate, acute, keel- 
ed, ciliate bractes. Pedicles villous, about the length 
of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments broadly 
lanceolate, acute, thickly clothed with long villous 
hairs. Nectariferous tube scarcely as long as the 
calyx, flattened on each side, gibbous at the base, 
villous. Petals 5, the two upper ones broadly ovate, 
oblique at the base, of a dark reddish purple, with a 
dark velvetty spot in the centre, and below that are 
numerous dark branching lines ; lower petals ob- 
ovately-oblong, of rather a lighter colour. Filaments 
10, united at the base, seven bearing anthers. Style 
red, very hairy. Stigmas 5, purple, revolute. 
Our drawing of this plant was taken at the Nursery 
of Mr. Colvill last October. It was raised the pre- 
ceding spring from a seed of P. spectabile ^. recurvum, 
