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PELARGONIUM pulcheUum. 
Nonesuch Stork' s-bill. 
P. pulcheUum, caule carnoso siifFruticoso, scapo diviso, 
foliis oblongis sinuato-pinnatifidis, stipulis latis lan- 
ceolatis, petiolis basi adnatis. 
Pelargonium pulcheUum. Botan. magaz. 524. Pers. 
synops. 2. p. 228. Hort, Kew. ed. 2. vol. 4. p. 165. 
non JVilldenovii. 
Geranium pictum. Andrews's reposif. 168? 
Stem sufFruticose, short and succulent, a little 
branched. Leaves oblong, sinuate or nearly pinnati- 
fid, segments oblong or lanceolate, entire, or sometimes 
toothed, covered with short soft down. Stipules large, 
oblong or lanceolate, acute, fringed, and joined to the 
lower part of the petiole. Scape divided, leafy under- 
neath the peduncles. Peduncles downy, many-flow- 
ered. Involucre of many lanceolate or subulate bractes, 
connected at the base; bractes acute, reflexed. Flowers 
on the outsides of the umbels on long pedicles, and in 
the middle sessile. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, 
acute, back one erect, the others reflexed or revolute. 
Nectariferous tube very long, hairy, flattened and 
channelled on both sides. Petals 5, two uppermost 
widest, obovate, white marked with a faint red speck ; 
lower ones spatulate, white with a broad lively red 
stripe down the middle of each. Filaments 10, united 
at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Anthers obtuse. Pollen 
yellow. Style red, slightly hairy at the base. Stigmas 
5, reflexed. 
Our drawing of this plant was taken at the nursery 
of Mr. Thomas Jenkins, of the New Road and Regent's 
