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PELARGONIUM affine. 
Related Stm'k's-hill. 
P. affine, caule fruticoso ramoso ; ramis villosis, foliis 
cordatis undulato-lobatis rigidis cartilagineo-dentatis 
utrinque pilosis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis ciliatis, um- 
bellis plurifioris subpaniculatis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
reflexo sesquilongiore. 
Pelargonium affine. Colv. catal. ed. 2. p. 23. col. S. Swt. 
hort. brit. p. 79. n. 103. 
Stem shrubby, erect, branching: branches erect or 
slightly spreading, thickly clothed with unequal spreading 
villous hairs, as is every other part of the plant except 
the corolla. Leai^es cordate, very much undulate, more 
or less lobed, rigid, and sharply toothed with brown car- 
tilaginous teeth, fringed round the edges. Petioles a little 
flattened on the upper side, and convex on the lower, 
stoutest at the base. Stipules ovate, taper-pointed, undu- 
late and fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, several-flowered, 
in a sort of panicle. Involucre of 6 ovately lanceolate, 
acute bractes. Pedicles about the length of the bractes, 
sometimes scarcely as long. Calyoo 5-cleft, upper segment 
broadest, ovate, acute, erect; the others lanceolate and 
reflexed. Nectariferous tube about half as long again as 
the calyx, much flattened on both sides. Petals 5, the 
2 upper ones obovate, very much oblique at the base, of a 
dark reddish scarlet, marked with a dark velvetty patch in 
the centre, from which to the base are several short dark 
lines, more or less branched, the unguis white : lower 
petals ligulately oblong, of a lighter colour and much 
spreading. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 bearing 
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