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PELARGONIUM Victorianum. 
Princess Aleocandrina Victoria's Stork' s-bilh 
P. Victorianum, caule carnoso ramoso laevi* ramis villo- 
sis, foliis reniformibus basi acuminatis trilobis obtuse 
dentatis undulatis margine subreflexis sericeo-pubescen- 
tibus subcanescentibus: lobis sublobatis, umbellis sub- 
sexfloris, petalis superioribus obcordatis: inferioribus 
cuneatis, tubo nectarifero calyce 3-4-plo longiore. 
Stem frutescent, succulent, smooth and glossy, branch¬ 
ing : branches rather flexuose, thickly clothed with spread¬ 
ing villous white hairs, that are of various lengths. Leaves 
kidney-shaped, tapering to the base, deeply 3-lobed, the 
points and margins more or less reflexed, very much undu¬ 
late, and toothed with unequal, broadish, blunt, rigid teeth, 
underneath strongly nerved, the nerves branched; clothed 
on both sides with short soft silky hairs, which give a 
white appearance, particularly to the young leaves ; the 
margins fringed: lobes more or less lobed. Petioles 
slightly flattened on the upper side, channelled near the 
leaf, rounded on the lower side, a little swollen at the base, 
thickly clothed with spreading villous hairs. Stipules ovate, 
acute, pubescent, remaining persistent for a long time, but 
at length dropping off. Flowering-branch lengthening 
out, and becoming slender, densely villous, the peduncles 
axillary or opposite to a leaf, also villous. Umbel d-flow r - 
ered in our plant, which appears to be the general number. 
Involucre of 6 lanceolate, acute, concave, woolly bractes. 
Pedicles scarcely so long as the bractes. Calyx! 5-cleft, the 
segments lanceolate, scarcely acute, densely clothed with 
villous hairs, the upper one nearly double the size of the 
others, and erect: the others all reflexed. Petals 5, of a 
bright salmon colour, the two upper ones broadest, obcor- 
