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PELARGONIUM incarnatum. 
Pale flesh-coloured StorJc's-bill. 
P. incarnatum, caule erecto ramoso, foliis cordatis 3-5-lobis 
obtusis inaequaliter dentatis pilosis, stipulis cordatis acu- 
tis, umbellis plurifloris paniculatis, petalis ovatis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce duplo breviore. 
Pelargonium incarnatum. Swt.hort.brit. add. 
Stem shrubby, upright, branching, thickly clothed with 
unequal spreading hairs. Leaves cordate, obtuse, 3 to 5- 
lobed, unequally toothed, hairy on both sides: lobes spread¬ 
ing, wedge-shaped. Petioles flattened on the upper side, 
and convex on the lower, thickly clothed with unequal 
spreading hairs, as are the peduncles, bractes, and calyx. 
Stipules shortish, broadly cordate, acute, hairy. Peduncles 
panicled, generally 4-flowered, the flowers terminating the 
branches in a conspicuous manner. Involucre of 6 broadly 
lanceolate acute bractes. Pedicles in general longer than 
the bractes, hairy. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, acute, 
erect, the upper one largest. Nectariferous tube short, 
scarcely half the length of the calyx, gibbous at the base. 
Petals 5 , of a pale flesh or salmon colour, all roundly ovate, 
the two upper ones broadest and oblique at the base, with 
a bright red spot in the centre, below which are many 
branching red lines. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 
7 bearing anthers; pollen orange-coloured. Style pale pur¬ 
ple, a little longer than the stamens. Stigmas 5, purple, re¬ 
flexed, or revolute. 
This is also of hybrid origin, having been raised the year 
before last at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a seed of 
P. calycinum , that had been fertilized by the pollen of 
P. concinnum , or some nearly related sort. It is a very 
