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PELARGONIUM Belladonna. 
Smith's painted lady Stm'k's-bill. 
P. belladonna, caule fruticoso erecto ramoso, foliis planis 
basi trinerviis acute serrato-dentatis glabriusculis : in- 
ferioribus reniformibus quinquelobis ; superioribus cu- 
neatis 3-5-lobis acutis, umbellis 3-5-floris, petalis su- 
perioribus ovatis calyce duplo longioribus, tubo necta- 
rifero calyce aculo paulo longiore. 
Pelargonium Belladonna. Swt. hyrt. brit. p. — . n. 278. 
Stem shrubby, erect, branching : branches spreading, 
glossy, thickly clothed with long unequal spreading white 
hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and nectariferous 
tube. Leaves flat, strongly three-nerved at the base, the 
nerves much branched, deeply and sharply toothed with 
very unequal sharp rigid teeth, smooth and glossy, the 
nerves and margins a little hairy: lower ones kidney- 
shaped, 5-lobed, rather broader than long: upper ones 
wedge-shaped, acute, 3 to 5-lobed, deeply and sharply 
toothed, slightly fringed. Petioles broad, flattened and 
furrowed on the upper side, and convex on the lower, wi- 
dened at the base and point. Stipules ovately lanceolate, 
acute, sometimes toothed, densely fringed. Peduncles 
long and slender, 3 to 5-flowered. Involucre of 6 lan- 
ceolate, taper-pointed, fringed bractes. Pedicles about 
the length of the bractes. Calyw 5-cleft, segments long 
and slender, lanceolate, taper-pointed, slightly hairy and 
fringed. Nectariferous tube longer than the calyx, flat- 
tened on each side and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the 
2 upper ones ovate, of a pale blush, shaded with rose, 
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