PELARGONIUM Veitchianum.
Mr. Veitch's Stork’s-bill.
P. Veitchianum, foliis reniformibus subquinquelobis ru-
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um e is multifloris congestis, tubo nectarifero ca-
iyce villoso triplo breviore,. stylo hirsutissimo.
cl, oth, edj wi. th long spreading uhaiairust,i arenud; soomraen csnheosr ttemr conKeri
intermixed, more or less tinged with brown. Leave,
kidney shaped, rounded at the points, slightly 5-lobed
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with short woolly hairs on both sides, numerously nerv-
ed underneath, the nerves much branched. Petioles
much flattened, and more or less furrowed on the uppei
side convex on the lower, thickly clothed hairs and short down underneath. Stipules with spreading
ovate,
tapering to a short point, very hairy and fringed. Umdbeulnsc
mlesany-flowered ; the flowers crowded, purple. Pe
cylindrical swollen a little at the base, very
hairy. Involucre of 6 to 9 ovate, taper-pointed bractes,
more or less connected at the base, villosely hairy. Pe-
dicles variable in length tinged with purple. Calyx 5-
latiH J °US’ f a PurPllsh brown: the segments lanceosa
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