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PELARGONIUM quinquevulnerum.
Dark-Jiowered Stork’ s-bill.
P. quinquevulnerum, umbellis multifloris, foliis ternato-
bipinnatifidis scabris : segmentis Iineari-lanceolatis
obtusis inciso-dentatis, petiolo commuai inter pin-
nas dentato, caule flexuoso suffruticoso, tubo nec-
tarifero calyce veflexo sesquilongiori.
Pelargonium quinquevulnerum. Pers. syn. 2. p. 232.
Wïlld. enum. 2. p. 730. Hort. sub. Lond. p. 152.
n. 141. Link. enum. 2. p. 188.
Geranium quinquevulnerum. Andrewss reposit. 114.
Stem suffruticose, flexuose, rough and rugged, owing
to the brown persistent stipules, not much branched
; branches short, thickly clothed with unequal
spreading hairs. Leaves ternate, bipinnatifid, very
rough and hairy on both sides; segments linearly lanceolate,
blunt, unequally cut and toothed, or sometimes
entire. Petioles winged and toothed between
the leaflets, very hairy. Stipules cordate or widely
ovate, bluntish, but abruptly pointed. Peduncles cylindrical,
much longer than the leaves, from 6 to 9
flowered, thickly covered with rigid spreading hairs,
which make them rough to the touch. Involucre of
about eight cordate or ovate acute bractes. Pedicles
about the length of the nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-
cleft, segments lanceolate, all reflexed. Nectariferous
tube flattened and furrowed on each side, about half
as long again as the calyx. Petals 5, the two upper ones
largest, obovately ligulate, the upper part of a deep
velvet with lighter edges, the lower part whitish or pale
blush, with two red lines from the base that are
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