PELARGONIUM cenanthifoliura.
Dropwort-leaved Storh's-bill.
P. cenanthifolium, villoso-pilosum, caule sufifruticoso car-
noso, foliis inferioribus pinnatis divaricato-patentibus :
foliolis pinnatifidis bipinnatifidisve; superioribus pin-
natifidis: segmentis oblongo-linearibus obtusis apice
barbatis, urabellis multifloris, tubo nectarifero calyce
triplo breviore.
Roots large and fleshy. Stem short, suffrutescent, succulent,
when young thickly clothed with long woolly white
hairs, those wear off as it becomes older, it is then clothed
with a brown rugged bark. Flower-stems paniculately
branching, swollen at the joints, densely clothed with long
entangled villous hairs, particularly at the joints. Leaves
more or less divided, hairy: lower ones pinnate, divaricately
spreading; the leaflets petiolate, pinnatifid or bi-
pinnatifid; the segments oblong or oblongly linear, obtuse,
mostly toothed, but some few entire, with a bunch of long-
ish hairs or setae at the points: upper leaves only pinnatifid,
more hairy, and the segments tioles rather more acute. Pe- slightly flattened on the upper side and rounded
below, swollen at the base, villosely hairy. Stipules ovate,
acute, villous. Peduncles long, cylindrical, villosely hairy. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre of numerous lanceolate,
acute, villous bractes. Pedicles about the length of,
or a little longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, clothed
with long spreading hairs: segments bluntish, the upper
one ovate, obtuse, erect; the others lanceolate or linear,
reflexed. Petals 5, of a dark crimson, edged with bright
scarlet, the two uppermost broadest, obovate, the three
lower ones narrower and ligulate. Filaments 10, connected
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