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PELARGONIUM Hammersleise. 
Mrs. Hammer sley* s StorM s-hilL 
P. Hammersleice, pedunculis paucifloris, foliis cordato- 
reniformibus siiblobatis insequaliter denticulatis 
iitrinque hirsutis, petalis recurvis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce parum breviore. 
Stem shrubby, erect, branching, clothed with a 
brown shining bark; branches slenderish, flexuose, 
thickly clothed with dense woolly hairs, as are the pe- 
tioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cordate or reni- 
form, slightly lobed, unequally toothed with short 
teeth, thickly clothed on both sides with short hairs, 
underneath much veined. Petioles slender, a little 
flattened on the upper side and convex on the lower, 
widened at the base. Stipules short, cordate, acute, 
fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, 2 to 4-flowered. In- 
volucre of 6 or 7 short, ovate, acute, fringed bractes, 
slightly keeled at the back. Pedicles longer than the 
nectariferous tube, bent upwards. Calyx 5-cleft, seg- 
ments lanceolate, acute, fringed. Nectariferous tube 
scarcely as long as the calyx, flattened and keeled on 
each side. Petals 5, the two upper ones roundly ob- 
ovate, oblique at the base, of a bright lilac, with a 
large dark velvetty patch in the centre, surrounded 
with a shade of a reddish purple, and from the base 
branch several purple lines ; lower petals oblongly 
ovate, obtuse, of a pale blush, slightly tinged in the 
centre, and often marked with one or two linear red 
spots. Filaments 10, united at the base, seven bearing 
anthers. Pollen orange-coloured. Germen villous. 
Style flesh-coloured, very hairy. Stigmas 5, fringed 
and revolute. 
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