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PELARGONIUM mutabile. 
Changeahle-cohured Stork's-bill. 
P. mutabile, caule fruticoso carnoso nodis tumidis, fo- 
liis ternatis glabris subtus pilosis ; foliolis obtusis 
cuneatis grosse dentatis ; intermedio maximo laci- 
niato apice reflexo, stipulis longe acuminatis sub- 
persistentibus : inferioribus cordatis? superioribus 
lanceolatis subulatis, umbellis multifloris, tubo nec- 
tarifero calyce triple longiore. 
Root fleshy, producing numerous tubers. Stem 
shrubby, succulent, very thick at the base, flexuose, 
swoln at the joints, smooth and glossy, not much 
branched. Leaves large, ternate, smooth and glossy 
on the upper side, and thickly clothed with short soft 
hairs on the lower: leaflets obtuse, wedge-shaped, 
deeply but unequally toothed, with large blunt teeth 
and smaller ones intermixed; lower one 2-lobed; upper 
one much larger, 5-lobed or laciniate, points bent 
downwards. Petioles long, nearly cylindrical, swoln 
at the base and thickening towards the point, thickly 
clothed with unequal spreading hairs. Stipules variable, 
taper-pointed, fringed, nearly persistent ; lower ones 
broadly cordate ; upper ones lanceolately subulate, ter- 
minating in long slender points. Peduncles axillary, 
or opposite to the leaf, gibbous at the base, hairy! 
Umbels many-flowered. Involucre of several lanceo- 
late, acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles very short, or 
scarcely any. Cali/x 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, 'ob- 
tuse. Nectariferous tube more than three times longer 
than the calyx, hairy. Petals 5, obovate or slightly 
obcordate : the two upper ones largest, green, tinged 
with purple ; lower ones pale purple, but changing the 
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