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PELARGONIUM sphondyliifolium. 
Swine's Parsnep- leaved Stork's- bill. 
P. sphondyliifolium, caule sufFruticoso carnoso subde- 
curabente, foliis ternatis pinnatifidisque utrinque 
pilosis apice recurvis ; foliolis segmentisque lacini- 
atis obtuse dentatis, umbellis multifloris, tubo nec- 
tarifero calyce reflexo quintuple longiore. 
Root tuberous, branching into numerous tubers of 
various shapes and sizes. Stem short, sufFruticose, suc- 
culent, unequal in size, rather decumbent, clothed with 
subpersistent stipules ; branches short and thick. Leaves 
large and spreading, very hairy on both sides, ternate ; 
lower leaflets 2-parted, intermediate one pinnatifid, the 
points reflexed ; segments distant from each other, 
deeply divided, sometimes nearly pinnatifid, bluntly 
toothed, sinuses rounded. Petioles long, slightly flat- 
tened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, much 
swollen at the base, clothed with long spreading hairs 
and short villous ones intermixed. Stipules short, 
broadly cordate, acute, joined to the base of the 
petioles. Scape branching, leafy at the base of the 
peduncles. Peduncles very long, cylindrical, thickly 
covered with long spreading villous hairs. Umbels 
many-flowered. Involucre of numerous broadly lanceo« 
late acute bractes. Pedicles about the length of the 
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft ; segments short, unequal, blunt- 
ish, all reflexed, and clothed with short hairs; the upper 
one ovate, the others lanceolate. Nectariferous tube 
long and slender, a little flattened on each side, clothed 
with short hairs, more than five times the length of the 
calyx. Petals 5, obovate, equal or nearly so, of a bril- 
liant dark velvet, scarlet at the base, the upper ones 
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