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PELARGONIUM Mostynse. 
Mrs. Mostyn's Stork' s-hill. 
P. Mostynce, pedunculis paniculatis: umbellis multi- 
floris, foliis renifonnibus iindiilato-lobatis dentatis, 
pedunculis calycibusque villosissimis. 
Geranium Mostynum. Colvill MSS. 
Stem shrubby, upright, with few branches. Leaves 
pubescent on both sides, reniform, waved, slightly 
lobed, dentate, ciliate. Stipules ovate, toothed, acu- 
minate, upper ones wedge-shaped. Peduncles longer 
than the leaf, covered with long villous hairs, most 
numerous at the upper part. Umbels 5 to 8-flowered. 
Involucre of 6 bractes; hractes cuneate, subdentate, 
villous. Calyx divided into 5 segments, thickly co- 
vered with soft villous hairs; segments lanceolate, 
acute, the upper one largest. Nectariferous tube 3 
times shorter than the pedicle. Corolla of 5 petals, 
the two uppermost obovate, pale purple, beautifully 
marked with dark lines: the three lower ones lanceo- 
late, obtuse, of a pale rose colour. Filaments 10, 
united at the base, seven only bearing anthers. Pollen 
orange-coloured. Germen villous. Style hairy, purple. 
Stigmas 5, spreading. 
Our drawing of this plant was taken at the nursery 
of Mr. Colvill, King's Road, Chelsea, who named it in 
honour of Mrs. Mostyn, an admirer of curious plants; 
we suspect it to be of hybrid origin, but cannot deter- 
mine between which species; it hath some distant affi- 
nity to P. cor datum; also to P. cucullatum, and other 
species nearly allied, but is readily distinguished from 
them all. It is a very hardy kind, and early flowerer, 
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