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PELARGONIUM htemastictum.
Blood-spotted, Stork's-bill.
P. hcemastictum, foliis cordatis acutis 5-7-lobis undulatis
inaequaliter dentatis glabris margine ciliatis basi conca-
® vis apice subrecurvis, stipulis oblongo-lanceolatis acu-
minatis, umbellis plurifloris, petalis superioribus condu-
plicatis, tubo nectarifero calyce sesquilongiore.
Stem frutescent, branching: branches more or less
flexuose, smooth and glossy, very thinly hairy. Leaves
cordate, acute, rigid, 5 to 7-lobed, undulate and curved inwards,
toothed with numerous broad, sharp, rigid, very
unequal teeth, smooth, or slightly hairy on the nerves underneath,
fringed round the edges, hollow or concave at
the base, the points more or less recurved, of a palish green
colour. Petioles slightly flattened on the upper side and
rounded on the lower, smooth, or clothed with a few short
hairs. Stipules oblongly lanceolate, taper-pointed, fringed. Umbels several-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, smooth
or but thinly clothed with short hairs. Involucre of several
bractes, very unequal in size, some ovate, others lanceolate,
acute, fringed. Pedicles 3 times the length of the bractes,
slightly hairy. Calyx 5-cleft, hairy; upper segment erect,
ovate, acute, keeled at the back: the others lanceolate, taper-
pointed, veined, the points reflexed. Nectariferous tube
about half as long again as the calyx, flattened but keeled on
both sides, clothed with short hairs. Petals 5 ; the two
upper ones obovate, very unequal-sided, conduplicate or
more or less folded towards the base, of a bright blush, with
a bright blood-coloured spot in the centre, and several crimson
lines below it, a little branched: lower petals obovate,
crenulate at the edges, strongly veined underneath, white or