PELARGONIUM platanifolium.
Plane-tree-leaved Stork's-bill.
P. platanifolium, foliis cordatis quinquelobis argute ser-
ratis pustuloso-punctatis nitidis; lobis patentibus inciso-
lobatis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subdentatis
ciliatis, umbellis 3-5-floris, petalis omnibus obovatis
crenulatis, tubo nectarifero calyce sesquilongiore.
Pelargonium platanifolium. Swt. hort. brit. addenda.
Stem shrubby, of strong growth, branching; branches
more or less flexuose, thickly clothed with very small white
hairs, and a few longer ones intermixed. Leaves cordate,
acute, 5-lobed, sharply and deeply serrate, the teeth tipped
with a small horny gland, dotted all over with numerous
minute tubercles, very slightly hairy, of a glossy green colour,
margins ciliated, underneath strongly and numerously
nerved, the nerves branching in all directions, and hairy: lobes jagged or lobed, spreading, a little undulate. Petioles
flattened on the upper side and convex on the lower, clothed
with unequal spreading hairs. Stipules ovately lanceolate,
taper-pointed, fringed, and sometimes 3 toothed. Peduncles to 5-flowered, a little compressed, also clothed with unequal
spreading hairs. Involucre of 6 or 7 lanceolate, acute,
keeled and fringed bractes. Pedicles longer than the bractes. mL>eanlytsx 5-cleft, of a dark brown, with reddish margins, seg
very long, lanceolate, taper-pointed, all more or less
rroefulesx teudb, eand sometimes twisted, or revolute. Nectarife
large, about half as long again as the calyx, flattened
on each side, and gihbous at the base, clothed with
short stiff hairs. Petals 5, spreading, all obovate and cre-
nulate, about as long again as the segments of the calyx,
the two upper ones broadest, very unequal sided, of a
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