PELARGONIUM quadriflorum.
Four-flowered Stork's-bill.
P. quadriflorum, foliiscordatis tripartitis concavis bullato-
rugosis utrinque pubescentibus: segmentis lobatis obtuse
dentatis margine subincurvis, stipulis ovatis acutis
ciliatis, pedunculis quadrifloris, petalis superioribus
margine subincurvis, calyeibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero
calyce duplo longiore. |
Pelargonium quadriflorum. Swt. hort. hr it. addenda.
Stem suffruticose, much branched: branches spreading,
thickly clothed with small downy hairs, and some longer
ones intermixed. Leaves cordate, blunt, 3-parted, blistered
or rugose, clothed on both sides with short downy
white hairs, the margins fringed with short hairs : segments
oblong or cuneate, and unequally toothed with bluntly
rounded teeth, the margins more or less bent inwards; terminal
one largest, three-lobed; side ones deeply two-lobed. Petioles slender, flattened a little on the upper side and
rounded on the lower, thickly clothed with unequal spreading
white hairs, as are the stipules, peduncles, bractes, and
calyx. Stipules short, ovate, acute, fringed. Peduncles
cylindrical, generally 4-flowered. Involucre of 6 lanceolate,
acute, keeled bractes. Pedicles slender, bent upwards,
longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments
lanceolate, acute, keeled, the upper one erect, the others
reflexed. Petals 5, the two upper ones obovate, unequal
sided, of a bright orangy scarlet stained with brown, with a
faint brown patch in the centre, below which branch numerous
dark lines, strongly 2-nerved at the back, the nerves
branched; lower petals ligulate, of a lighter colour, 4-veined
at the back, spreading. Filaments 10, connected at the
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