PELARGONIUM adventitium.
Adventitious Stork’s-bill.
P . adventitium, foliis cordato-reniformibus obtusis 5-7,
lobis glabris undulatis insequaliter rigide dentatis,
stipulis ovatis breviter acuminatis, umbellis pluri-
floris, tubo nectarifero calyce multo ad medium hirsuto. breviore, stylo
Stem frutescent, erect, branching : branches thickly
clothed with short hairs. Leaves cordately reniform,
rounded at the ends, shallowly 5 to 7-lobed, more or
less undulate, toothed with numerous sharp rigid teeth,
that vary considerably in size, fringed with short hairs
round the margins, and thinly clothed with short hairs
on both sides, strongly nerved underneath, the nerves
much branched, and densely haiiy. Petioles flattened
on the upper side and rounded below, villosely hairy. Stipules ovate, tapering to a short slender point, villous
and fringed. Umbels about 6-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical,
clothed with spreading villous hairs, that are very
unequal in length. Involucre of 6 or 7 oblong, acute, villous
bractes. Pedicles much longer than the bractes in
general, but sometimes about the same length. Calyx
5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, acute, keeled, hairy;
upper one broadest; all erect, or slightly spreading at
the points. Nectariferous tube in general very short,
sometimes almost wanting, others again are nearly as
long as the calyx. Petals 5; the two upper ones obo-
vate, unequal-sided, of a purple lilac, with a bright
dark spot in the centre, and numerous dark lines between
it and the base, scarcely branched: lower petals
narrower, spathulate, attenuated to the base, notched
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