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PELARGONIUM intertextum. 
Interwoven Stork's- MIL 
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P. intertextum, scapo diviso subpaniculato, umbellis 
multifloris, foliis ovatis obtasis simplicibus laci- 
niatis teruatisque ineequaliter dentatis utrinque 
pilosis, petalis distinctis patentibus reticulato-ve- 
nosis. 
Root tuberous. Stem very short. Leaves variable, 
scarcely two alike, roundly ovate, obtuse, simple, jag- 
ged or ternate, unequally and deeply notched, with 
blunt rounded teeth, strongly veined underneath, hairy 
on both sides. Petioles unequal in length, a little 
flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, 
thickly clothed with long villous hairs, as is every 
other part of the plant except the corolla. Stipules 
lanceolate, taper-pointed, fringed. Scape leafy, branch- 
ing. Pefi?wwc/e.s widely spreading. L7>/2i>e/A' many-flowered. 
Involucre of numerous unequal bractes, some lanceo- 
late, others linear, acute. Pedicles very short. Calyx 
5-cleft, segments unequal, lanceolate, bluntish. Nec- 
tariferous tube about half as long again as the calyx, 
flattened on each side, nearly sessile. Petals 5, small, 
distinct at the base, spreading, of a bright scarlet, 
reticulately veined with black veins. Filaments 10, 
united into a tube, seven bearing anthers, which in our 
specimens were always imperfect. Germen villous. 
Style short, very hairy. Stigmas 5, reflexed. 
This elegant flowering plant is of hybrid origin, 
and was raised in the superb collection of Robert H. 
Jenkinson, Esq. from a seed of V.fulgidum that had 
been fertilized by the pollen of Hoarea reticulata. Its 
elegance of growth, and abundance of bloom, which 
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