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PELARGONIUM limonium. 
Lemon-scented Stork's-hill. 
P. limonium, caule fruticoso ramosissimo, foliis sparsis 
cordatis 3-5-lobis crispis: lobis divaricatis rotundato- 
cuneatis inaequaliter dentatis, pedunculis subtrifloris, 
calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce longiore. 
Pelargonium limonium. S%vt. hort. hrit. p. 81. w. 252. 
Stem shrubby, very much branched ; branches erect 
or slightly spreading, thickly clothed with short unequal 
hairs. Leaves scattered, cordate at the base, broader 
than long, 3 to 5-lobed, margins much curled, unequally 
toothed with short rigid teeth, underneath strongly nerved, 
the nerves branching, clothed on both sides with short 
hairs, of a pleasant scent like lemon : lower lobes divari- 
cately spreading, roundly wedge-shaped, slightly 2-lobed : 
upper one widened upwards, more or less S-lobed, the 
point slightly reflexed. Stipules small, cordate, acute, 
sometimes toothed, ciliate. Peduncles opposite to a leaf, 
cylindrical, 2 or 3 -flowered, clothed with short unequal 
hairs. Involucre of 6 ovately-lanceolate, acute, fringed 
bractes. Pedicles longer than the nectariferous tube, 
clothed with short spreading unequal hairs. Calyx 5-cleft, 
upper segment ovate, acute, erect, slightly keeled, the 
others lanceolate, acute, reflexed, all of them hairy and 
fringed. Nectariferous tube longer than the calyx, much 
flattened on each side, and gibbous at the base, hairy. 
Petals 5, with long unguis, the two upper ones obovate, 
slightly oblique, of a bright lilac, tinged with purple, with 
a large velvetty mark in the centre, and several dark lines 
below it, and running through it, more or less branched : 
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