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PELARGONIUM Lousadianum. 
Miss Lousadas Stork^ s-hill. 
P. Lousadianum, pedunculis paucifloris, foliis inferiori- 
bus basi dilatatis cordatis trilobis; lobis sublobatis 
argute dentatis; superioribus basi cuneatis subtri- 
lobis, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
duplo longiori. 
Stem shrubby, erect, branching. Branches clothed 
with short soft hairs. Leaves 3-lobed, much widened 
at the base : lower ones 2 inches long and 2§ wide, 
cordate, 3-lobed, sharply but unequally toothed, thickly 
clothed on both sides with short soft hairs : lobes 
slightly lobed: nerves prominent on the lower side, 
and furrowed on the upper: upper /eafe^ wedge-shaped 
at the base, 3-lobed, sharply toothed. Petioles flat 
and channelled on the upper side, and convex below, 
thickly clothed with short unequal hairs. Stipules 
cordate, acuminate, sometimes toothed, margins re- 
curved. Peduncles few-flowered. Involucre of 5 or 6 
ovate, keeled bractes, terminated in an acute point. 
Pedicles short, but unequal in length. Calyx 5-cleft, 
upper segment ovate, the others lanceolate, all reflexed 
when in flower, but erect when overblown. Nectari- 
ferous tube about twice the length of the calyx, flat 
and furrowed on both sides, thickly clothed with short 
hairs. Petals 5, the 2 upper ones roundly obovate, of 
a blush colour, with 2 confluent purple spots in the 
middle of each, which joins 2 slightly branched lines 
from the base, and between the two lines are other 
purple marks, of diff"erent shapes : lower petals broadly 
ligulate, of a blush colour. Filaments 10, united at 
the base, 7 bearing antjiers. Pollen orange-coloured. 
