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PELARGONIUM Atkinsianum. 
Mr. Atkins’s Stork’s-bill. 
P. Atkinsianum, foliis eordatis 5-7-lobis acutis inaequali- 
ter argute denticulatis margine crispato-undulatis 
multinerviis, stipulis ovatis breve acuminatis, um- 
bellis 3-4-floris, sepalis acutissimis, tubo nectari- 
fero calyce parum breviore, stylo undique piloso. 
Stem frutescent, branching, of a glossy green, clo¬ 
thed with short spreading hairs. Leaves cordate, acute, 
flat, but crumpled a little at the edges, 5 to 7-lobed, 
and toothed with numerous short sharp teeth, clothed 
with short rigid hairs on the lower side, the upper 
nearly smooth, many-nerved underneath, the nerves 
rigid and much branched. Petioles slightly flattened on 
the upper side, thickened and dilated a little at the 
base. Stipules ovate, terminated in a short, sharp point, 
thickly fringed at the margins. Umbels 3 to 4-flowered. 
Peduncles cylindrical, clothed with spreading hairs, 
thickened a little at the base. Involucre of 6 or 7 ovate 
and lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles a little 
longer than the bractes, hairy. Calyx 5-cleft, the seg¬ 
ments lanceolate, very sharp-pointed, keeled a little 
below the point, spreading or slightly reflexed, when 
the flowers are expanded. Corolla of 5 petals, of a de¬ 
licate light blush, the two upper ones broadest, obovate, 
a little unequal-sided towards the base, rounded at the 
points, with a patch of bright dark purple in the cen¬ 
tre, below which are a few short lines: lower ones ob- 
longly obovate, narrower, pale blush. Filaments 10, 
connected at the base, 7 bearing anthers: pollen orange- 
coloured. Style pale green, hairy all its length. Stig¬ 
mas 5, pale red, the points recurved. 
