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PELARGONIUM dilatilobum. 
Dilated-lobed Stork's-bill. 
P. dilatilobum , villosum, foliis reniformibus trilobis undu- 
latis multinerviis: lobis apice dilatatis denticulatis, sti- 
pulis cordatis acutis, pedunculis 4-5-floris, calycibus re- 
flexis, tubo nectarifero calyce breviore. 
Every part of the plant clothed with spreading villous 
hairs. Stem frutescent, erect, branched. Leaves kidney¬ 
shaped, 3-lobed, undulate, and toothed with numerous very 
short bluntish teeth, underneath strongly and numerously 
nerved, the nerves much branched: lobes much dilated, the 
sides ones slightly two-lobed. Petioles flattened on the 
upper side and convex on the lower, much dilated at the 
base. Stipules cordate, acute, sometimes toothed, fringed, 
the margins slightly reflexed. Peduncles cylindrical, 4 or 
5-flowered. Involucre of 6 ovate acute bractes. Pedicles 
longer than the bractes, about the length of the nectariferous 
tube. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments very long, lanceolate, 
taper-pointed, strongly 3-nerved, purple, all reflexed when 
in bloom. Nectariferous tube unequal in length, but 
longer than the calyx, much flattened on both sides. Petals 
5, the two upper ones obovate, unequal-sided, pale blush, 
with a large purple patch in the centre, and numerous 
purple lines below it, branching in various directions: lower 
petals oblongly cuneiform, pale blush. Filaments 10, 
united at the base, 7 bearing anthers: pollen orange- 
coloured. Style purple, very hairy above half way up, the 
upper part smooth. Stigmas 5, purple, revolute. 
The present pretty little plant is a hybrid production, 
and was raised from seed in the collection of J. F. Burnett, 
