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PELARGONIUM Princeanum. 
Prince’s StorPs-bill. 
P. Princeanum , foliis cordatis profunde lobatis acutis un- 
dulatiscartilagineo-dentatispubescentibus,stipulisovato- 
lanceolatis acuminatis, umbellis plurifloris, calycibus vil- 
losis, petalis omnibus obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
paulo longiore. 
Stem frutescent, branched : branches spreading, more 
or less flexuose, thickly clothed with spreading unequal 
hairs. Leaves cordate, deeply lobed with several sharp 
lobes, and toothed with unequal sharp homy teeth, clothed 
on both sides with a short pubescence, and dotted with nu¬ 
merous small dots, strongly three-nerved from the base, the 
nerves branched. Petioles flattened and furrowed on the 
upper side, and convex on the lower, hairy. Stipules 
ovately lanceolate, tapering to a slender point, hairy, and 
ciliate. Umbels several-flowered. Peduncles more or less 
flattened, thickly clothed with spreading unequal hairs. In¬ 
volucre of 6 short, ovate, blunt bractes, which are fringed, 
and terminate in a sharp mucrone. Pedicles double the 
length of the bractes, the upper part of a light purple. Ca-. 
lyoc 5-cleft, densely clothed with villous hairs, the segments 
unequal in size, imbricate, broadly lanceolate, taper-point¬ 
ed, the points reflexed : the upper one ovate, erect. Necta¬ 
riferous tube a little longer than the calyx, much flattened 
on each side, tinged with brown, villosely hairy. Petals 5, 
all broadly obovate, rounded, the margins slightly crenu- 
late or uneven; upper ones very unequal sided, white, tin¬ 
ged with blush, and a large dark velvet patch in the centre, 
below which are numerous large dark purple lines, branch¬ 
ing all over the petals: lower ones rather narrower, pure 
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