PELARGONIUM ternatum.
Ternate-leaved Stork’s-bill.
V. ternatum, pedunculis subtrifloris, foliis ternatis cu-
cullatis scabris: foliolis sessilibus cuneiformibus
inciso-dentatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero
calyce sesquilongiori.
Pelargonium ternatum. JVillden. sp. pi. 3. p. 685.
Botan. magaz. 413. Pers. syn. 2. p. 233. Hort.
Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 181. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 544.
Coll. 5. p. 135.
Geranium ternatum. Cavan, diss. 4. p. 255. t. 107.
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Stem shrubby, much branched; branches slender,
rigid, of a reddish brown colour, thickly covered with
short unequal spreading hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles,
and calyx. Leaves distichous, ternate, concave,
rough and rigid, slightly hairy on each side:
leaflets sessile, wedge-shaped, cloven or deeply lobed,
and sharply toothed with brown rigid unequal teeth.
Petioles about the length of the leaf, flattened on the
upper side and convex on the lower, a little widened
at the base, of a brown coloqr. Stipules lanceolate,
taper-pointed, sometimes toothed. Peduncles 2 or 3-
flowered. Involucre of from 4 to 6 bractes, which
are subulately linear and fringed. Pedicles about the
length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate,
acute, all reflexed. Nectariferous tube unequal
in length, about half as long again as the calyx,
flattened and furrowed on each side. Petals 5, the
two upper ones widely spatulate, of a bright lilac, with
two forked light purple lines near the base of each;
lower petals spatulate, three times narrower than the