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PELARGONIUM albinotatum. 
White-marked purple Stork's-bill. 
P. albinotatum , foliis rotundato-cordatis acutis subcuculla- 
tis inaequaliter acute dentatis utrinque molliter pilosis, 
stipulis ovatis acuminatis, umbellis plurifloris, petalis 
omnibus obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce erecto duplo 
breviore. 
Stem fruticose, erect, branched: branches erect, thickly 
clothed with unequal spreading woolly hairs and short down 
intermixed. Leaves variable, roundly cordate, acute or 
sometimes obtuse, more or less cucullate, many-nerved 
from the base, the nerves much branched, and ending in 
smallish sharp teeth, which are unequal in length, clothed 
on both sides with short woolly hairs; upper leaves ovate 
or curieate, sometimes shortly 3-lobed. Petioles flattened 
on the upper side and convex on the lower, broadest at the 
base, very hairy. Stipules ovate, taper-pointed and fringed. 
Umbels terminated in a sort of panicle, 5 or 6-flowered. 
Peduncles cylindrical, very hairy, as are the bractes, pedi¬ 
cles, calyx, and nectariferous tube. Involucre of 6 to 8 
ovately lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles scarcely 
so long as the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments erect,, 
lanceolate, taper-pointed. Nectariferous tube short, 
broadly flattened, about half the length of the calyx. Pe¬ 
tals 5, all obovate, of a bright purple, the tw r o upper ones 
broadest, unequal sided, marked from the base with several 
dark purple lines, between which is a white mark. Fila¬ 
ments 10, united at the base, 7 bearing anthers: pollen 
orange-coloured. Style purple, very hairy near the base, 
and smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, purple, revolute. 
Our drawing of this plant was made, last Autumn, at 
the Nursery of Mr. Dennis, at Chelsea; it is of hybrid 
