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PELARGONIUM atrofuscum.
Dark-brown-marked Stork’s-bill.
P. atrofuscum, umbellis, plurifloris, foliis superioribus
brevi-petiolatis trilobis rigidis insequaliter argute
dentatis; basi cuneatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo
nectarifero breviori calyce.
Pelargonium purpureum, fuscum. Hoare MSS.
Stem shrubby, branching. Branches thickly clothed
with long soft villous hairs. Leaves on the branches
with very short footstalks, wedge-shaped at the base,
deeply 3-lobed, sharply and very with stiff horny teeth, hairy on both usindeeqs,u anlelryv etso omthuechd
branched on the lower side, and furrowed on the upvpeerry;
suhpopretr, olena vtehs en ebarralnyc sheesss,i lseh, oshrtaerrp -thpoainn ttehde. sPtieptuioleless,
widely flattened and channelled on the upper and convex
on the lower side, thickly covered with long uneexqcueapl
tv itlhloeu s cohraoirlsla, . as Sisti peuvleersy ocothredra tpea, rtt aopfe trh-peo pinlatendt
and ciliate. Peduncles several-flowered. Involucre
gPeendeicrlaelsly a olfi tt6le olvoantge,e rc othnacnav eth, et abprearc-pteosi,n tbeudt bsrhaocrtetesr.
than the nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-cleft, segments
loatnhceerso larteef,l exaecdu.t e, Ntehceta ruipfepreoru so ntueb ew sidheosrtt,e r ertehcatn, tthhee
ocaf lyax ,r efdldaitstehn ebdro ownn b ocothlo suird.e s Panetda lgsi b5b,o uthse a ttw thoe ubpapseer,
opnaetcs hr oinu ntdhley coebnotrvea,t ea, npdu rspelvee, rwal itdha rak l abrrgoew dna lrikn ebsr oruwnn
ning through it; lower petals oblong, obtuse, of a
blueish rose colour. Filaments 10, united at the base,
7 bearing anthers. Germen and aristae villous. Style
y 2