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PELARGONIUM insignitum. 
Marked-flowered StorTcs-hill. 
P. insignitum, caule fruticoso villoso, foliis cordatis lobatis 
inaequaliter obtuse dentatis villoso-pubescentibus, um- 
bellis plurifloris, petalis ramoso-venosis patentibus; 
superioribus cuneato-obovatis ; tubo nectarifero calyce 
paulo longiore. 
Stem shrubby, branching, thickly clothed with un- 
equal villous hairs. Leaves cordate, ovate, deeply but 
irregularly lobed, unequally toothed with bluntish teeth, 
clothed on both sides with soft villous hairs, more or less 
undulate, the margins often curved inwards. Petioles 
short, flattened on the upper side and convex on the lower, 
thickly clothed with unequal villous hairs. Stipules lance- 
olate, acute, villous and fringed. Peduncles stout, also 
villous. Umbels several flowered. Involucre of 6 or 7 lan- 
ceolate, acute, fringed and villous bractes. Pedicles about 
the length of or a little longer than the bractes. Calyx 5- 
cleft: upper segment ovate, concave, erect; the others 
narrower and spreading, all clothed with soft villous hairs. 
Nectariferous tube about the length of, or a little longer 
than the calyx. Petals 5, spreading : the 2 upper ones 
cuneately obovate, of a bright scarlet, with a large dark 
patch near the base, and numerous dark lines which spread 
all over the petals, and are much branched : lower petals 
broadly ligulate, of a bright scarlet, also marked with dark 
branching lines. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 
bearing anthers, which were all imperfect in the specimens 
that we examined. Style longer than the stamens, hairy 
below, and smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed, 
or revolute. 
