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PELARGONIUM selectum. 
Choice Stork' s-hill. 
P. selectum, caule erecto carnoso sufFrutieoso, scapo 
diviso, foliis cordatis quinquelobis subtus tomento- 
sis, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero subsessili 
calyce quadruple longiori. 
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Root tuberous. Stem sufFruticose, short, erect, 
clothed with a brown scaly bark. Leaves cordate, 
deeply 5-lobed, unequally toothed, densely tomentose 
underneath ; lower lobes generally 2-lobed. Petioles 
clothed with very short hairs, and a few long ones in- 
termixed. Scape erect, rigid, branching, covered with 
unequal spreading hairs. Peduncles hairy. Umbels 
many-flowered. Involucre of several lanceolate, acute, 
keeled, ciliate bractes. Cali/a; 5-cleft, segments un- 
equal, some ovate, others lanceolate, bluntish, all 
reflexed. Nectariferous tube more than four times longer 
than the calyx, flattened on each side, gradually ta- 
pering downwards. Petals 5, strongly veined under- 
neath, of a rosy purple, with a dark velvet spot in 
each that covers above half the petals : two upper ones 
obcordate ; lower ones spatulately oblong. Filaments 
10, straight, united at the base, one of them very 
large and spatula-shaped, which produces no anther, 
six only bearing anthers. Po//ew yellow. Germen and 
aristce villous. Sti/le slightly hairy at the base and 
smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, red, reflexed. 
This very handsome plant is a hybrid production, 
and was raised from a seed of P. lobatum, in the choice 
collection of Robert Henry Jenkinson, Esq. where our 
drawing was taken this summer. What its other pa- 
rent was, we have not ascertained, but we suspect it 
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