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PELARGONIUM principissse. 
Princess Charlotte's Stork' s-hill. 
\ P. principisscey urabellis plurifloris, foliis cordato-renifor- 
mibus sublobatis inaequaliter mucronato-dentatis, 
stipulis acuminatis, petalis rotundato-obovatis im- 
bricatis reflexis, tubo nectarifero brevissimo calyce 
* triple breviori. 
Pelargonium princeps. Nob. in Colv. Catal. p. 22. coL 1. 
I Stem shrubby, erect, branching ; branches erect, of 
a shining green colour, thickly clothed with soft white 
unequal horizontal hairs. Leaves cordately reniforni, 
slightly lobed, unequally and deeply toothed, with 
sharp-pointed teeth ; of a dark green colour and hairy 
on both sides. Petioles about the length of the leaf 
hairy. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, fringed, and 
taper-pointed. Peduncles several-flowered, hairy, as 
are the bractes, pedicles, and calyx. Tnvolucre of 6 or 
7 bractes : hractes lanceolate, keeled, ciliate, with very 
sharp points. Pedicles long and slender, bent upwards, 
about twice the length of the calyx. Calyx 5-cleft^ 
segments unequal, lanceolate, erect. Nectarifermis 
tube very short, about three times shorter than the 
calyx, blunt, and flattened on each side. Petals 5, 
roundly obovate, imbricate, reflexed, the two upper- 
most widest, of a dark lilac colour, with a dark vel- 
! vetty spot in the centre, and from the base branch 
numerous lines of the same colour in all directions; 
lower petals of a lighter colour, marked with pale 
lines. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing 
anthers. Pollen russet-coloured. Style smooth, red. 
Stigntas very short, recurved. 
