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PELARGONIUM Brightianum. 
Miss Bright' s Stork' s-hill. 
P. Brightianum, caule erecto ramoso, 'foliis profunde 
. trilobis serrato-dentatis pubescentibus : lobis diva- 
ricatis sublobatis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis acutis 
cdiatis, umbellis sub-4-floris, petalis undulatis im- 
bricatis, tubo nectarifero calyce villoso duplo bre- 
viore. 
Stem shrubby, much branched; branches spreading, 
thickly clothed with long- spreading villous hairs, as are 
the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves flat, deeply 
3-lobed, pubescent, of a pale green colour ; lobes ob- 
ovate or cuneate, serrately dentate, sometimes again 
lobed. Petioles flattened and furrowed on the upper 
side and convex on the lower. Stipules ovately lance- 
olate, acute, fringed. Peduncles generally 4-flowered. 
Involucre of 6 ovately lanceolate, acute, villous bractesj 
which are longer than the pedicles. Pedicles short' 
bent upwards. Calyx 5-cleft; segments lanceolate^ 
taper-pomted, very villous, upper one largest, erect, 
the others reflexed. Nectariferous tube about half 
the length of the calyx. Petals 5, imbricate, very 
much undulate ; two upper ones very broad, roundly 
obovate, white with a bright purple spot in the centre, 
below which are numerous purple stripes ; lower petals 
narrowly obovate, white. Filaments 10, united at the 
base, seven bearing anthers. Pollen orange-coloured. 
Stz/le pale red, hairy at the base and smooth upwards. 
Stigmas 5, of the same colour, with revolute points. 
^ This pretty plant is a hybrid production, and was 
raised, last year, at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a 
seed of V. concinnum, that had been fertilized by one 
