PELARGONIUM Lamberti.
Lambert’s Stork’s-hill.
P. Ldmberti, pedunculis paucifloris, foliis cuneatis tri-
fidis; segmentis acutis lobatis inciso-serratis, caule
ramosissimo, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero
calyce longiori.
Pelargonium Lambertia. Hoare Geran. p. 24. n. 335.
Stem shrubby, much branched, and clothed with
a brown cracked b a rk ; branches numerous, slender,
upright, or slightly spreading, clothed with unequal
spreading hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx.
Leaves wedge-shaped, trifid, clothed on both
,sides with a close short pubescence, and a few hairs
scattered round the edges ; upper segment widest, generally
3-lobed, sharply and deeply serrated; side
ones lanceolate, acute; on the lower part of the plant
lobed, deeply and sharply serrate, on the upper part
entire; sometimes the upper leaves are quite entire
and lanceolate. Petioles very short, flattened and furrowed
on the upper side and convex on the lower.
Stipules cordate at the base and terminating in a long
taper point, fringed. Peduncles numerous, reaching
far beyond the leaves, 2 to 4-flowered. Involucre of
4 or 5 bractes; bractes ovate, acute, with reflexed,
fringed margins. Pedicles unequal in length, longer
than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate,
reflected. Nectariferous tube flattened and furrowed
on each «side, slightly recurved, longer than the calyx,
thickly clothed with unequal spreading hairs. Petals
5, the two uppermost widely obovate, of a light rose-
colour, with a dark velvet spot in the centre, which
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