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PELARGONIUM incurvum. 
Incurved'petaled Stork' s-hill. 
"P. incurvum, caule fruticoso ramoso, ramis gracilibus 
flexuosis, foliis tripartitis dentatis pubescentibus : 
segmentis lateralibus bilobis : intermedio 3-5-lo- 
bato, stipulis cordato-ovatis acutis, pedunculis sub- 
paniculatis 3-5-floris, petalis superis margine in- 
curvis, tubo nectarifero calyce subduplo longiore. 
Pelargonium incurvum. Swt. hort. hrit. inedit. 
Stem shrubby, hard and 'woody, brown-barked, 
much branched; branches numerous, spreading, flexu- 
ose, slender, thickly clothed with unequal spreading 
villous hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. 
Leaves 3-partecl, bluntly toothed, attenuated down the 
footstalk, pubescent on both sides. Petioles flattened 
on the upper side and convex on the lower, a little 
swollen at the base. Stipules cordately ovate, acute, 
entire, villous. Peduncles in a kind of panicle, long 
and slender, 3 to 5 flowered. Involucre of 6 or 7 lan- 
ceolate, bluntish bractes. Pedicles slender, longer 
than the bractes, bent towards the flowers. Cali/jc 5- 
cleft ; segments lanceolate, acute, the upper one broad- 
est, erect, the others reflexed. Nectariferous tube un- 
equal in length, sometimes double the length, at other 
times scarcely longer than the calyx, flattened and 
keeled on both sides, gibbous at the base. Petals 5, 
tlie two upper ones obovate, connivent at the base, 
their margins bent inwards, of an orangy scarlet, 
marked with purple branched lines from the base, and 
an obscure mark in the centre ; three lower ones ligu- 
late, spreading, of rather a lighter colour. Filaments 
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