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PELARGONIUM Newshamianum. 
Miss Neivsham's Stork* s-hilL 
Newshamianum, pedunculis 2-3-florisve, foliis cor- 
datis trilobis inaequaliter grosseque dentatis, stipulis 
cordatis acutis subdentatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce sesquilongiori. 
Stem shrubby, branching; branches erect , thickly 
clothed with long soft white spreading unequal hairs. 
Leaves cordate, 3-lobed, unequally and deeply toothed 
with sharp rigid teeth, roughish to the touch and hairy 
on both sides: lobes spreading, acute. Petioles slen- 
der, a little flattened on the upper side and convex on 
the lower, thickly clothed with soft spreading hairs, as 
are the peduncles, calyx, and nectariferous tube. Sti- 
pules cordate, mucronate, generally toothed and cili- 
ate. Peduncles cylindrical, 2 or 3 flowered. Involucre 
of about six cordately ovate, acuminate bractes. Pe- 
dicles unequal in length, bent upwards. Cali/x 5-cleft, 
segments long, lanceolate, acute, points reflexed or re- 
volute. Nectariferous tube about half as long again as 
the calyx, flattened and slightly furrowed on each side, 
a little gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two upper- 
most widely obovate, slightly recurved, oblique at the 
base, of a light blush, with a dark purple spot in the 
centre, which joins several purple confluent lines from 
the base that are slightly branched, 3 lower ones nar- 
rowly obovate, of a light blush. Filaments 10, united 
at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Germen villous. Sti/le 
red, hairy below and smooth on the upper part. Stig- 
7nas 5, purple, reflexed. 
This pretty little plant is of hybrid origin, and was 
raised at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from the seed of 
