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PELARGONIUM Watsoni.
Watson's Stork’s-bill.
P. Watsoni, umbellis plurifloris paniculatis, foliis cor-
datis rotundatis sublobatis dentato-crenatis margine
undulatis, stipulis cordatis acutis subdentatis, tubo
nectarifero calyce reflexo subeequali.
Pelargonium Watsoni. Link. mum. plant, hort. her.
v. 2. p. 192.
Pelargonium serotinum. Colv. catal. p. 22. col. 1.
Stem shrubby, erect, much branched; branches
erect, rigid, thickly clothed with unequal spreading
hairs. Leaves wider than long, roundly cordate;
slightly 5-lobed, unequally toothed with numerous
short sharp teeth, covered on both sides with short
hairs, very soft to the touch, margins much waved.
Petioles about the length of the leaf, widely flattened
and furrowed on the upper side and convex on the
lower, thickly covered with unequal spreading hairs,
as are the peduncles and calyx. Stipules very short,
cordate, acute, sometimes toothed, fringed. Peduncles
panicled, 4 to 6 flowered. Involucre of 6 widely lanceolate,
acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles unequal in
length, seldom as long as the calyx. Calyx 5-cleft,
segments unequal, lanceolate, acute, reflexed or revolute.
Nectariferous tube about the length of the calyx,
much flattened and furrowed on each side, of a brown
colour like the calyx. Petals 5, of a bright lilac, the
two upper ones nearly round, very oblique at the base,
reflexed from about the middle, and marked with a
dark purple spot in the centre, below which are several
purple lines that are slightly branched: lower petals
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