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PELARGONIUM signatum. 
Marked-leaved Stork' s-bill. 
P. signatum, caule fruticoso ramoso; ramis gracilibus 
erecto-patentibus villosis, foliis cordatis oblongis acutis 
5-7-lobis acute dentatis piloso-pubescentibus : lobis 
planis divaricatis acutiusculis, stipulis cordato-ovatis 
acuminatis, umbellis 4-6-floris, tubo nectarifero calyce 
subaequali. 
Pelargonium signatum. Swt. hort. hrit. p. — . n. 322. 
ined. 
Stem shrubby, branching, of a woody texture : 
branches slender, erect or slightly spreading, thickly 
clothed with long, spreading, villous, unequal hairs, as 
are the petioles, peduncles, bractes, and calyx. Leaves 
cordately oblong, acute, flat or slightly waved, 5 or 7 
lobed, toothed with numerous sharp rigid teeth, covered 
on both sides with a hairy pubescence, roughish and 
slightly viscid, marked in the centre with a dark brown 
mark, sometimes much stronger than at others; lobes 
broad, distant, divaricately spreading, acute. Petioles 
long and slender, flattened on the upper side and rounded 
on the lower, widened at the base. Stipules cordately- 
ovate, taper-pointed, fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, 
4 to 6-flowered. Involucre of 6 ovate or lanceolate acute 
fringed bractes, all united at the base. Pedicles unequal 
in length, some not so long, others longer than the bractes. 
Calyx 5 -cleft, segments broadly lanceolate, acute, the 
upper one largest, erect; the others reflexed. Nectari- 
ferous tube about the length of the calyx, flattened on 
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