267 
PELARGONIUM delicatum. 
Delicate Stork\s-bilL 
P. delicatum^ caule erecto ramoso: ramis patentibus, 
foliis cuneatis 5-lobis incisis dentatis planis, pedunculis 
2-3-floris, petalis patentibus inferioribus spatulato- 
ligulatis, tubo nectarifero calyce longiore. 
Pelargonium delicatum. Hoare Mss. Colv. catal. ed. 2. 
p. 23. col. % Swt. Jiort. hrit. p. — . n. 237. ined. 
Stem shrubby, very much branched : branches weak 
and slender, scarcely strong enough to support their own 
weight when grown long and in flower, which often causes 
them to be bent and crooked, thickly clothed with soft 
villous hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. 
Leaves flat, wedge-shaped, 5-lobed, incised and toothed 
with pointed teeth ; lower lobes deep and spreading; upper 
ones shallow. Petioles flattened and channelled on the 
upper side and convex on the lower, dilated at the base. 
Stipules ovately lanceolate, oblique, broad at the base, 
taper-pointed and ciliate. Peduncles slender, 2 to 3- 
flowered. Involucre of, from 4 to 6 narrow, subulately- 
linear, taper-pointed, fringed bractes. Pedicles long and 
slender, unequal in length. Calyoc 5-cleft, segments lan- 
ceolate, acute, the upper one erect, the others spreading. 
Nectariferous tube unequal in length, sometimes double 
the length of the calyx, at other times but little longer, 
flattened and furrowed on each side. Petals -5, unguicu- 
late, the 2 upper ones obovate, oblique at the base, of a 
rosy lilac, with a dark purple spot in the centre, and seve- 
ral dark lines branching from it : lower petals spatulately 
ligulate, of a lighter colour. Filaments 10, united at the 
