PELARGONIUM Loudonianum.
Mr. Loudon's Stork's-bill.
P. Loudonianum, caule erecto fruticoso carnoso, foliis cor-
datis acutis cucullatis multilobis insequaliter dentatis
glabriusculis; lobis rectis acutis,. stipulis ovato-lanceo-
latis acutis ciliatis, urabellis multifioris, tubo nectarifero
brevi calyce 2-3-plo breviore.
Stem frutescent, short and stout, succulent, erect, thickly
clothed with spreading white hairs. Leaves a little succulent,
rather crowded, cordate, acute, cucullate or hollow
on the upper side, many-lobed, appearing smooth till examined
with a lens, which shows that they are thickly clothed
with very short hairs on both sides, longest on the
veins, unequally but rather thinly toothed with large rigid
teeth that are abruptly acute, fringed round the margins
with short hairs, underneath strongly and numerously nerved,
the nerves branching all over the leaf: lobes straight
and acute, also hollow on the upper side. Petioles thick
and succulent, rigid, flattened and furrowed a little on the
upper side, convex below, a little widened at the base, clothed
with spreading white hairs. Stipules ovately or broadly
lanceolate, acute, fringed, attached to the base of the petioles.
Umbels many-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, swollen
at the base, thickly clothed with spreading white hairs. Involucre of 6 lanceolate, acute, fringed, hairy bractes. Pedicles longer than the bractes, also clothed with spreading
white hairs, as are the calyx and nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, acute, keeled. Nectariferous tube short, bilt unequal in length, much
flattened on both sides and gibbous at the base, two or three
times shorter than the calyx. Petals 5, of a dark blood
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