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PELARGONIUM schizopetalum. 
Divided-petaled Stork' s-hill. 
P. schizopetalum, caule sufFruticoso carnoso squamoso, 
foliis ternatis trifidisve oblongo-ovalibus obtusis 
undulatis utrinque hirsutis apice revolutis : foliolis 
lateralibus bilobis inciso-dentatis ; intermedio maxi- 
mo multilobato obtuse dentato, umbellis plurifloris 
longe pedunculatis, petalis subaequalibus bipartitis : 
segmentis multifido-laciniatis, tubo nectarifero ca- 
lyce triplo longiore. 
Root tuberous, branching in various directions. 
Stem short, sufFruticose, rather succulent, scaly, some- 
what branched ; branches short, more or less spreading. 
Leaves about 6 inches long to 2 broad, ternate or 
deeply trifid, obtuse, oblongly oval, undulate, hairy on 
both sides, unequally toothed with blunt rounded teeth, 
fringed, the points revolute or much recurved, of a 
dark ^reen colour; terminal leaflet very large, 11 to 
13-lobed, the lobes overlapping each other, more or 
less incised, and bluntly toothed ; side leaflets much 
smaller, cuneate, oblique at the base, deeply 2-lobed, 
incised, and bluntly toothed. Petioles flattened and 
channelled on the upper side, and rounded on the 
lower, widened at the base, thickly clothed with a 
dense pubescence and long spreading hairs intermixed. 
Stipules lanceolate, taper-pointed, fringed, and joined 
to the base of the petioles. Peduncles simple, very long 
and stout, densely hairy at the base, but less so up- 
wards. tJmhel several-flowered, spreading. Involucre 
of several narrowly lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes, 
all connected at the base. Pedicles shorter than the 
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft ; segments uneqnal, linearly 
