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PELARGONIUM Potteri. 
Potter's Stork' s-hill. 
P. Potteri, umbellis multifloris subpaniculatis, foliis 
cordatis trifidis multinerviis : segmentis lobatis 
grosseque crenato-dentatis, stipulis lanceolatis acu- 
tis^ tubo nectarifero calyce sesquilongiori. 
Stem shrubby, rather succulent, branching: branches 
short and stiff, thickly clothed with long unequal vil- 
lous hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. 
Leaves slightly cordate, deeply 3-cleft, many-nerved, 
and covered on both sides with short soft hairs ; seg- 
ments lobed, unequally and deeply notched; teeth 
bluntish and rounded. Petioles shorter than the leaf, 
flattened and furrowed on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, widened at the base. Stipules lanceolate, 
acute, dilated at the base. Peduncles sometimes pa- 
nicled, many-flowered. Involucre of six lanceolate, 
acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles shorter than the caljrx, 
about the length of the bractes. Cali/jc 5-cleft, upper 
segment widely lanceolate, erect, the others narrower 
and reflexed. Nectariferous tube about half as long 
again as the calyx, flattened on each side and gibbous 
at the base. Petals 5, the two upper ones roundly 
obovate, of an orangy scarlet colour, marked at the 
base with numerous dark lines which branch in various 
directions, and between the lines from the base is a 
forked white mark: lower petals oblong, obtuse, of 
rather a lighter colour. Filaments 10, united at the 
base, 7 bearing anthers, which in our specimens were 
always sterile. Sti/le flesh-coloured, hairy at the base 
and smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, red and reflexed. 
This pretty plant is of hybrid origin, having been 
raised from a seed of P. fiilgidum that was fertilized 
