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PELARGONIUM nutans.
Nodding -flowered Stork’s-bill.
P. nutans, caule suffrutescente ramoso, foliis'cordatis
palmatim 7-lobis undulatis obtuse denticulatis :
margine subincurvis, stipulis lanceolatis acuminatis,'
umbellis nutantibus 3-5-floris, petalis cuneiformi-
bus, tubo nectarifero calyce-subæquali, stylo sub-
hirsuto.
Stem suffrutescent, much branched: branches spreading,
thickly clothed with short woolly hairs. Leaves
cordate, scarcely acute, palmately 7-lobed, the upper
ones only 5-lobed, very much undulate, and a little
curled at the margins, which bend a little inwards,
somewhat hollow on the upper side, and thinly toothed
with bluntish teeth, hairy on both sides: lobes spreading,
those on the lower leaves oblong, bluntish; the
upper ones narrower and acute, and toothed with sharper
teeth. Petioles flattened a little on the upper side, and
convex below, villosely hairy. Stipules lanceolate, tapering
to a long slender point, villous. Peduncles 3 to
5-flowered, the flowers nodding, of a brilliant scarlet. Involucre of 6 narrow lanceolate, taper-pointed, keeled
bractes. Pedicles shorter than the bractes. Calyx 5-
cleft, densely clothed with silky hairs: the segments
lanceolate, acute, keeled, spreading when the flower is
expanded. Nectariferous tube about the length of the
calyx, sometimes scarcely so long. Petals 5, wedge-
shaped, much attenuated towards the base, distinctly
spreading: the upper ones broadest, truncate or very
slightly crenulate at the ends, marked in the centre
with a deep velvetty spot, below which are a few short
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