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PELARGONIUM Humei. 
Sir Abraham Hume’s Stork’s-bill. 
P. Humei, foliis reniformibus quinquelobis undulatis carti- 
lagineo-dentatis utrinque pilosis, stipulis cordato-ovatis 
subdentatis villoso-ciliatis, umbellis 4-5-floris, petalis 
obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce villoso subasquali v. 
parum breviore. 
Pelargonium Humei. Swt. hort. brit. addenda. 
Stem shrubby, erect, thickly clothed with villous hairs, 
branching: branches erect, or a little spreading, villosely 
hairy, as are the petioles, peduncles, and stipules. Leaves 
kidney-shaped, much broader than long, slightly 5-lobed, 
very much undulate, rigidly toothed with sharp horny teeth, 
hairy on both sides, of a lively green colour, underneath 
strongly 3-nerved, the nerves branching. Petioles flat¬ 
tened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, a little 
thicker at the base. Stipules broadly cordate or ovate, 
acute, often toothed, villous and fringed. Peduncles cy¬ 
lindrical, generally 4 or 5 -flowered. Involucre of 5 or 6 
bractes, which are ovate, acute, thickly clothed with villous 
hairs, and fringed. Pedicles longer than the bractes, more 
or less bent, unequally villous. Calyo& 5-cleft, densely vil¬ 
lous ; segments long, lanceolate, acute, tinged with brown ; 
all erect, or the points slightly spreading. Nectariferous 
tube about the length of, or a little shorter than the calyx, 
flattened on both sides and gibbous at the base, of the same 
colour as the calyx. Petals 5, all obovate, the two upper 
ones broadest, oblique at the base, of a dark purplish crim¬ 
son, marked from the base with several black lines, that are 
more or less branched, 2-nerved at the back, the nerves 
branched: lower petals of a lighter purple, veined with 4 
redder veins, that are a little branched. Filaments 10, 
