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PELARGONIUM Burnettianum. 
Miss Burnett's Stork 1 s-bill. 
P. Burnettianum, villoso-hirsuta, foliis cordatis acutis un- 
dulatis obsolete quinquelobis cartilagineo-dentatis, sti- 
pulis late ovatis dentatis villoso-ciliatis, umbellis 3-4- 
ifloris, petalis obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce subae- 
quali. 
Stem frutescent, erect, branched; every part of the plant, 
except the corolla, thickly clothed with spreading villous 
hairs. Leaves cordate, acute, slightly 5-lobed, undulate, and 
toothed with numerous rigid horny teeth, the margins frin¬ 
ged, points a little recurved. Petioles flattened on the up¬ 
per side, and convex on the lower, widened at the base. 
Stipules broadly ovate, acute, toothed, villous, and fringed 
with woolly hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, in our specimen 
3 and 4-flowered. Involucre of 6 broadly lanceolate, taper- 
pointed, bluntly keeled bractes, more or less purple. Pedi¬ 
cles about the length of the bractes. Calyon 5-cleft, segments 
purple, the upper one ovately lanceolate, acute, erect, the 
others narrower, and their points reflexed. Nectariferous 
tube about the length of the calyx, much flattened on both 
sides, and gibbous at the base, purple. Petals 5, all obo- 
vate, the two upper ones very broad, unequal sided, dark 
crimson, with a dark velvetty patch in the centre, and a 
forked light line between it and the base, and numerous 
dark lines which branch all over the petals, margins a little 
curved inwards, and stained with brown: lower petals of a 
dark reddish purple, veined with light branching veins. 
Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing anthers. 
Germen woolly. Style purple, hairy about half way up, 
the upper part smooth. Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed. 
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