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PELARGONIUM Scottii. 
Sir Claude Scott's Stork: s-hill. 
P. Scottii, caule fruticoso ramoso : ramis patentibus vil- 
losis, foliis cordatis quinquelobis undulato-plicatis 
utrinque hirsutis margine incurvis, stipulis ovatis mar- 
gine recurvis, umbellis plurifloris, tubo nectarifero 
calyce villoso subasquali v. paulo longiore. 
Pelargonium Scottii. Swt. hort. hrit. p. — . n. 335, inedit. 
Stem shrubby, much branched : branches spreading, 
rather slender, thickly clothed with long spreading villous 
unequal hairs, as is every other part of the plant except 
the corolla. Leaves cordate, deeply 5-lobed, strongly 
and numerously nerved underneath, margins much curled 
and plaited, bent inwards, unequally toothed with rigid 
rounded teeth ; sinuses rounded, often overlapped. Pe- 
tioles short and stout, flattened on the upper side and 
rounded on the lower, thickened at the base. Stipules 
ovate, acute, sometimes toothed, ciliate, margins reflexed. 
Umbels several flowered. Peduncle cylindrical, swollen 
at the base. Involucre of 6 lanceolate acute villous 
bractes, their margins recurved. Pedicles about the length 
of the bractes. Cali/x 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, acute, 
strongly veined, the upper one erect, the others reflexed. 
Nectariferous tube about the length of, or a little longer 
than the calyx, much flattened on each side, and gibbous 
at the base. Petals 5, the 2 upper ones ovate, oblique 
at the base, of a bright scarlet, with a dark purple spot in 
the centre, betwixt it and the base are several slightly 
branched purple lines ; lower ones ligulate, spreading, of 
a lighter colour. Filaments 10^ united at the base, 7 bear- 
