PELARGONIUM denticulatum.
Tooth-leaved Stork’s-hill.
P. denticulatum, pedunculis paucifloris, foliis palmato-
bipinnatifidis viscosis margine planis dentatis sca-
bris; segmentis linearibus repandis; venis subtus
muricatis, petalis superioribus emarginatis bifidis-
que, tubo nectarifero longitudine calycis.
Pelargonium denticulatum. Jacq. hort. schcenbr. 2.
p. 5. t. 135. IVillden. sp.pl. 3. p. 680. Pers. syn.
2. p. 232. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 179.
Stem shrubby, much branched; branches spreading,
clammy, of a dark green colour. Leaves pal-
mately bipinnatifid, viscous, margins toothed, flat or
slightly curved inwards; segments lanceolate or linear,
bluntish, generally toothed, nerves and petioles
muricate underneath. Petioles slender, slightly flattened
on the upper and rounded on the lower side.
Stipules cordately lanceolate, acuminate. Peduncles
cylindrical, swollen, and transparent at the base, 2 or
3 flowered. Involucre of 4 to 6 very short, widely
lanceolate, concave, keeled, acute bractes. Pedicles
Very short, scarcely longer than the bractes. Calyx
5-cleft, segments blunt, unequal, reflexed, the upper
one ovate, the others widely lanceolate; margins membranaceous
and fringed. Nectariferous tube about the
length of the calyx, flattened and furrowed on each
side, gibbous at the base, and clothed with white
spreading hairs. Petals 5, the two uppermost deeply
emarginate or forked, sometimes cleft about half way
down, of a pale rose-colour or lilac, with a bright
purple spot near the base of each segment, which joins
vol. h, D