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PELARGONIUM pedicellatum. 
JLong-pedicled Stork' s-bilL 
P. pedicellatum^ subacaule, foliis glabris ciliatis carno- 
sis 5-7-lobatis dentatis apice reflexis, stipulis cor- 
datis acutis, umbellis multifloris, floribus louge 
pedicellatis, calycibus reflexis, petalis subeequalibiis, 
tubo nectarifero calyce quintuple longiore. 
Pelargonium pedicellatum. Swt. horf. brit. ined. 
Root tuberous, large, and clothed with a hard brown 
bark. Stem very short and rugged. Leaves smooth, 
thick, and succulent, of rather a greasy nature, fringed, 
5 or 7-lobed, and toothed with small sharp teeth, 
strongly nerved underneath : lobes broadly wedge- 
shaped, bent back at the point and margins. Petioles 
long, slightly flattened on the upper side, and rounded 
on the lower, thickened at the base, glossy, but clothed 
with long spreading white hairs. Stipules short, broadly 
cordate, acute. Scape producing no leaves, thickly 
clothed with unequal spreading white hairs. Umbels 
many-flowered. Involucre of numerous small unequal 
bractes, some of them cordate, others ovate or lanceo- 
late, acute. Pedicles very long and slender, some of 
them more than 2^ inches in length, clothed with long 
spreading hairs and short down intermixed. Calyx 5- 
cleft, segments lanceolate, acute, all reflexed. Necta- 
riferous tube about five times as long as the calyx, and 
about half the length of the pedicles, pubescent. Petals 
5, obovate, nearly equal in size; two upper ones pale 
greenish yellow, marked with a bifid purple spot; 
lower ones dark purple, edged with pale yellow. Fila- 
ments 10, short and straight, united at the base, one of 
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