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PELARGONIUM flagrans. 
Burning Stork's-bill. 
V.flagrans, foliis cordatis trilobis rotundato-obtusis undu- 
latis bullato-rugosis utrinque villosis mollissimis carti- 
lagineo-dentatis, stipulis ovatis acutis ciliatis, umbellis 
plurifloris, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce sub- 
aequali. 
Stem frutescent, erect, not much branched ; branches 
elongated, thickly clothed with soft spreading unequal hairs. 
Leaves cordate, bluntly rounded, slightly 3-lobed, very 
much undulate where lobed, hollow or cucullate, rugged or 
blistered, very soft to the touch, feeling like velvet, being 
clothed on both sides with soft villous hairs, toothed with 
numerous rigid horny teeth, that are very unequal in size, 
strongly nerved underneath, the nerves branched. Petioles 
flattened on the upper side and convex on the lower, a little 
dilated at the base and point, thickly clothed with spread¬ 
ing hairs, as are the stipules^ peduncles, and pedicles. Sti¬ 
pules short, broadly ovate, acute, fringed with long white 
hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, a little bent. Umbels several- 
flowered. Flowers of a bright flame colour. Involucre of 
from 6 to 8 broadly ovate, acute, villous bractes. Pedicles 
unequal in length. Calyx 5-cleft, of a purplish brown: seg¬ 
ments lanceolate, acute, villous : upper one much the broad¬ 
est, erect, the others reflexed, about the length of the necta¬ 
riferous tube. Petals 5, imbricate at the base; the two up¬ 
per ones broadly obovate, unequal sided, of a bright flame 
colour, with a large dark velvetty spot in the centre, and 
numerous dark lines between it and the base, that are more 
or less branched : lower petals obovately oblong, of rather 
