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PELARGONIUM Jenkinsoni.
Mr. Jenkinson’s Stork’s-bill.
P. Jenkinsoni, umbellis subquadrifloris, foliis inferiori-
bus cordatis obsolete lobatis simpliciter denticulatis
planis multinerviis: superioribus cuneato - ovatis
acutiusculis, calycibus acuminatis, tubo nectarifero
calyce parum longiori.
John Bull Geranium. Hortulanorum.
Stem shrubby, branching ; branches thickly clothed
with long white unequal spreading hairs, as are the
petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves ng\A, on the
lower part of the stem flat, roundly cordate, slightly
lobed, simply and nearly equally toothed with short
hluntish teeth, many-nerved underneath with strong
branching nerves, thickly clothed with short hairs on
the upper side, and long unequal ones on the lower:
on the upper part of the stem more deeply lobed, and
on the flowering branches cuneate or ovate, not lobed.
Petioles very short, much flattened and fin-rowed on
the upper side and convex on the lower, widened and
swollen at the base. Stipules short, cordate, acute
fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, often 4-flowered. Involucre
of six ovate acute fringed bractes. Pedicles
unequal in length, some twice as long as the others.
Calyx 5-cleft, segments very long, lanceolate, taper-
pointed, the upper one largest, erect, the others reflexed.
Nectariferous tube a little longer than the calyx,
flattened and furrowed on each side. Petals 5, the two
upper ones ohovate, oblique at the base, of a pale
blush colour, with a very large dark purple patch in
the centre on a red ground, and from it branch a few
short red lines; lower petals oblong, obtuse, pale
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