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PELARGONIUM Southcoteanum. 
Miss Southcote’s Stork’s-bill. 
P. Southcoteanum, ramis patulis villosis, foliis cordatis 
acutis quinquelobis undulato-plicatis insequaliter denta- 
tis utrinque villosis, stipulis cordato-ovatis acuminatis 
subdentatis villoso-ciliatis, pedunculis 3-4-floris, caly- 
cibus revolutis, petalis flaccidis obovatis, tubo nectari- 
fero calyce sesquilongiore. 
Pelargonium Southcoteanum. Swt. hort. brit.p. 84. n. 397. 
Colv. catal. edit. 3. p.9,7. col. Q. 
Stem shrubby, villous, branching : branches spreading, 
thickly clothed with long spreading, unequal, villous hairs, 
as is every other part of the plant except the corolla. Leaves 
cordate, acute, five-lobed, very much undulate or plaited, 
sharply but unequally toothed with sharp rigid teeth, thickly 
clothed on both sides with spreading villous hairs. Petioles 
flattened on the upper side, and convex on the lower, wi¬ 
dened at the base. Stipules cordately ovate, taper-pointed, 
often toothed, villous, and ciliate. Peduncles cylindrical, 
3 or 4-flowered. Involucre of 6 ovate, acute, villosely frin¬ 
ged bractes, which are sometimes toothed. Pedicles longer 
than the bractes. Calyon 5 -cleft, densely villous, segments 
all re volute, when the flower is expanded, of a purplish 
brown, upper one broadest, ovate: the others lanceolate 
and acute. Nectariferous tube about half as long again 
as the calyx, very broad, and flattened on each side, gibbous 
at the base. Petals 5, all obovate, rather flaccid, spread¬ 
ing ; two upper ones nearly double the breadth of the others, 
of a bright flame colour, light round the margins, and a 
dark patch in the centre, below which are numerous dark 
lines, more or less branched: at the back are two strong 
nerves, much branched on the upper part: lower petals of 
