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PELARGONIUM mucronatum. 
Mucronated Stork's-bill. 
P. mucronatum, ramis subflexuosis patulis hirsutis, foliis 
subcordatis quinquelobis grosse dentatis glabris, pe- 
dunculis 3-5-floris, calycibus patentibus, tubo necta- 
rifero calyce subaequali. 
Pelargonium mucronatum. Swf. hart. brit. p. — . n. 9,97. 
Stem shrubby, branching : branches spreading, flex- 
uose, thickly clothed with short spreading hairs, and longer 
ones intermixed. Lea/ves slightly cordate at the base, 
5-lobed, deeply and sharply toothed, with long sharp- 
pointed cartilaginous teeth, smooth and glossy, or very 
slightly pubescent, the margins slightly ciliate, underneath 
punctate with innumerable very minute dots, strongly 
nerved, the nerves not much branched. Petioles rather 
slender, nearly cylindrical, or a little flattened on the upper 
side, also unequally hairy. Stipules broadly lanceolate, 
taper-pointed, concave, hairy and fringed. Peduncles 
bent, unequally hairy, 3 to 5-flowered. Involucre of 
about 6 broadly lanceolate, concave, mucronate, hairy brac- 
tes. Pedicles scarcely longer than the bractes, villous. 
Calyoff 5-cleft, segments very long, lanceolate, acute, of a 
brown colour, upper one rather broadest, erect, the others 
more or less spreading, villosely hairy. Nectariferous 
tube broad, and flattened on each side, gibbous at the base, 
about the length of the calyx, also irregularly hairy. Pe- 
tals 5, the 2 upper ones obovate, oblique at the base, of a 
purplish red, with a large dark spot in the centre, and 
numerous dark purple lines branching nearly all over the 
petals; above the spot are lighter veins: lower petals 
