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PELARGONIUM crassicaule.
Thick-stalked Stork’s-hill: a. et (3.
P. crassicaule, umbellis multifloris, petalis obcordatis,
foliis reniformibus obacuminatis undulato plicatis
dentatis pulverulento-pubescentibus, caule carnoso
ramoso lsevi.
Pelargonium crassicaule. Willd. sp. pi. 3. p. 668.
Pers. syn. 2. p. 231. Hart. Kew. ed. 2. p. 172.
«. album, petalis albis 2 superioribus basi punctatis.
fig- a.
Pelargonium crassicaule. L'Hdrit. per. t. 26.
/3. maculatum, petalis omnibus maculatis. fig. b.
Pelargonium crassicaule. Bot. mag. 477.
Geranium crassicaule. Andrews's geran. c. icone.
• Stem shrubby, succulent, branching; of a brown
colour: flowering branches elongated, with opposite
leaves, and axillary peduncles, covered with a kind of
powdered pubescence, as are the leaves^ peduncles,
calyx, and bractes. Leaves reniform, acuminated
downwards, undulate or plicate; toothed with unequal
obtuse teeth. Petioles very long, flattened and channelled
on the upper side, and thickened at the base.
Stipules lanceolate, acute, densely pubescent, and ciliated
at the margins. Peduncles reaching beyond the
leaves, many-flowered. Involucre generally of seven
lanceolate, acute bractes, unequal in size. Pedicles
very short, covered with soft villous hairs; erect when in
flower, but declining when in fruit. Calyx 5-cleft; back
segment erect, the others reflexed, lanceolate, and all