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PELARGONIUM rigescens.
Stiff-leaved Stork’s-bill.
P. rigescens, umbellis plurifloris, foliis rotundato-cor-
datis concavis subangulatis simpliciter denticalatis
glabriusculis rigidis; junioribus zonatis, petalis in-
feris ligulatis, tubo nectarifero longitudine calycis.
Pelargonium hepaticifolium, var. Hoare Geraniaceoe,
p. 11. nec aliorum.
Stem shrubby, branching; branches slightly spread-
ing, rigid, thickly clothed with unequal spreading hairs,
as are the petioles, peduncles, and pedicles. Leaves
roundly cordate, concave, slightly angular, simply
toothed with short rigid unequal teeth, smoothish or
slightly downy, rigid ; young leaves zonate or marked
with a brown circle, which disappears in the full-grown
ones. Petioles flattened and furrowed on the upper
side and convex on the lower, dilated at the base.
Stipules cordately lanceolate, acute, entire with ciliated
margins. Peduncles bent upwards, several-flowered.
Involucre of 6 lanceolate taper-pointed fringed
bractes. Pedicles unequal in length, shorter than the
nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-cleft, villous; segments
unequal, erect, lanceolate, acute. Nectariferous tube
about the length of the calyx, flattened on each side,
gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two uppermost
obliquely obovate, of a pale rose-colour, with 3 or 4
purple lines from the base which are slightly branched,
3 lower ones ligulate, of a lighter colour. Filaments
10, united at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Germen
villous. Style red, slightly hairy at the base and
smooth on the upper part. Stigmas 5, red and revolute.