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PELARGONIUM Hesilrige*. 
a 
Lady Hesilrige’s Stork 1 s-bill. 
P. Hesilrigece, foliis rotundato-cordatis lobatis rugosis 
cartilagineo-dentatis utrinque pilosis: dentibus fasci- 
culato-pilosis, stipulis ovatis acutis, umbellis multifloris, 
petalis obovatis patentibus superioribus reflexis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce villoso subaequali aut parum breviore. 
Pelargonium Hesilrigese. Swt, hort. hrit. p. 84. n. 402. 
Stem shrubby, villous, and clothed with a brown cracked 
bark, not much branched : branches short, thickly crowded 
with leaves, and clothed with spreading unequal villous hairs, 
and short down underneath. Leaves more or less lobed, 
cordate, rugged, and uneven, unequally toothed, with rigid 
cartilaginous teeth, which are each tipped with a bunch of 
hairs, margins very much undulate, hairy on both sides, un¬ 
derneath strongly and numerously nerved; sinuses overlap¬ 
ping each other at the base. Petioles short, much flattened 
and furrowed on the upper side, widened at the base, vil- 
losely hairy. Stipules ovate, acute, villous, and fringed. 
Peduncles cylindrical, villosely hairy, scarcely strong 
enough to support the weight of the flowers. Involucre of 
numerous ovate, acute, concave, villous bractes. Pedicles 
longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, densely clothed with 
villous hairs, more or less tinged with a brownish purple; 
upper segment broadly ovate, erect, the others broadly lan¬ 
ceolate, reflexed. Petals 5, a little reflexed, all obovate, the 
upper ones broadest, becoming suddenly narrow above the 
middle, and gradually becoming narrower to the base; 
strongly 2-nerved at the back, of a dark crimson purple, 
pencilled with dark velvet marks, branched one amongst 
the other: lotver ones of a lighter colour, strongly 3 or 4- 
