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PELARGONIUM torrefactum. 
Burnt'petaled Stork' s-bilL 
V. torrefactum, c^ule fruticoso subcarnoso, foliis cordatis 
obtusis 5-7-lobatis dentatis canescenti-pubescenti- 
bus, stipuhs cordato-ovatis aciitis ciliatis subden- 
tatis, umbellis multifloris paniculatis, tubo nectari- 
tero calyce subsequali. 
Stem shrubby, somewhat succulent, branching- • 
branches spreading, flexuose, clothed with long spread- 
ing white hairs, and smaller ones intermixed. Leaves 
cordate, concave, 5 or 7-lobed, obtuse, toothed with 
large rounded unequal teeth, thickly clothed with a 
dense canescent pubescence; underneath strongly nerv- 
ed, the nerves clothed with long white hairs. Petioles 
stout, flattened and slightly furrowed on the upper side 
convex on the lower, widened at the base, thickly 
clothed with long spreading hairs, as are the peduncles, 
bractes, and calyx. Stipules cordately ovate, acute 
cihate, sometimes toothed. Peduncles panicled, cylin- 
drical. f/mAe/* many-flowered, /ww/wcre of six broad 
lanceolate acute bractes. Pedicles about the length 
or a little longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft- 
upper segment erect, oblongly lanceolate, bluntish' 
keeled ; the others narrower, lanceolate, acute, spread- 
ing. Nectariferous tube about the length of the calyx 
flattened on each side and gibbous at the base, villous' 
Petals 5, spreading; the two upper ones obovate, scar- 
let, tinged with a dark brown, having the appearance 
of being scorched ; from the base is a forked white 
mark, and from it branch numerous dark lines, which 
spi-ead all over the petals : lower petals ligulate, of a 
lighter colour, also tinged, and from the base are two 
