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PELARGONIUM regium. 
Kingly Stork's-bill. 
P. regium , foliis inferioribus cordatis acutis 5-lobis inaequa- 
liter cartilagineo-dentatis subtus multinerviis; superio- 
ribus cuneatis subtrilobis argute dentatis, stipulis acu- 
minatis, umbellis 3-4-floris, calycibus reflexis, tubo nec- 
tarifero calyce subduplo breviore. 
Brown’s George the Fourth. Hortulanorum. 
Stem shrubby, branching, the branches thickly clothed 
with spreading unequal villous hairs, as are the petioles, 
peduncles, and calyx. Leaves large, flat, broader than 
long, cordate, acute, slightly 5-lobed, and toothed with 
numerous unequal horny teeth, clothed on both sides with 
short soft hairs, underneath strongly nerved with numerous 
prominent nerves, which are much branched: upper leaves 
wedge-shaped, generally 3-lobed, and toothed with large 
sharp horny teeth. Stipules lanceolate and taper-pointed, 
villous and fringed, the upper ones ovate. Umbels in a 
sort of panicle, 3 or 4-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical. 
Involucre of 6 ovately lanceolate, acute, villous bractes. 
Pedicles shorter than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the seg¬ 
ments broadly lanceolate, acute, purple, all reflexed. Pe¬ 
tals 5, the two upper ones broadly obovate, unequal-sided, 
of a bright red, with a handsome velvetty spot in the centre, 
and several dark lines between it and the base, which be¬ 
come lighter as they extend, and branch all over the petals, 
underneath strongly 2-nerved, the nerves branched: lower 
petals obovately oblong, of a lighter colour, strongly veined 
underneath. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bear¬ 
ing anthers. Ovarium densely clothed with long white 
wool. Style purple, hairy below, and smooth upwards. 
Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed. 
