PELARGONIUM tinctum.
Stained Stork?s-bill.
P. tinctum, foliis cordatis acutis 5-7-lobis acute dentatis
utrinque hirsutis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis, umbel-
lis plurifloris, petalis omnibus obovatis basi imbri-
catis, tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali.
Dennis’s Rival Geranium. Hortulanorum.
Stem frutescent, much branched: branches stout,
Leaves spreading, thickly clothed with long white soft hairs. cordate, acute, broader than long, generally 7-
lobed, but some of the upper ones only 5-lobed, toothed
with numerous small, sharp, rigid teeth; hairy on both
sides, a little hollow at the base, the points in general
slightly Petioles reflexed: lobes short, divaricately spreading. flattened a little on the upper side and convex
on the lower, thickened at the base, thickly clothed
with spreading villous hairs, as are the peduncles,
bractes, calyx, and nectariferous tube. Stipules ovate,
duncles taper-pointed, fringed. Umbels several-flowered. Pe
cylindrical, more or less bent, thickened at the
base. Involucre of 6 or 7 lanceolate acute fringed bractes. Pedicles long and slender, longer than the nectariferous
tube. Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, taper-
pointed, erect or spreading, some of them sometimes
reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of the calyx,
sometimes scarcely so long, flattened on each side,
slightly gibbous at the base. Petals 5; the two upper
ones roundly obovate, very unequal sided, pale blush,
with a dark purple patch in the centre that extends
nearly all over the petals, below which are numerous
dark purple lines, more or less branched: lower petals
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