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PELARGONIUM Breesianum. 
j Breese’s Stork’ s- bill. 
P. Breesianum , umbellis multifloris, foliis cordato-ovatis 
leviter quinquelobis obtuse dentatis planis margine 
undulatis, caule petiolis calycib usque villosissimis, 
tubo nectarifero calyce breviori. 
Pelargonium Breesianum. Sweet's and Miller MSS. 
Nob. in Colv. Catal. p. 22. col. 2. 
Stem shrubby, branching, of a russet brown colour, 
thickly covered with long soft villous hairs, as are the 
branches, petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Branches 
spreading, of a yellowish green. Leaves cordate, oval, 
flat, slightly 5-lobed, unequally toothed with short 
bluntish teeth, covered on both sides with short villous 
hairs; lobes very blunt and rounded, margins slightly 
undulate. Petioles flattened and slightly furrowed on 
the upper side and convex on the lower, dilated and 
curved in at the apex. Stipules cordate, sometimes 
toothed, taper-pointed, thickly covered with long vil¬ 
lous hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, longer than the 
petioles. Involucre generally of 7 bractes, united at 
the base; bractes ovate, acuminate, keeled and ciliate. 
Pedicles very short, about half the length of the 
bractes, villous. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, 
acute, | of an inch long. Nectariferous tube shorter 
than the calyx, flattened and furrowed on one side and 
keeled on the other, thickly clothed with soft villous 
hairs. Petals 5, two uppermost widest, obovate, of a 
bright rose colour, with a darker spot in the centre, 
which joins 2 purple branched lines from the base, and 
between the two lines are other purple marks, on a 
