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PELARGONIUM variifolium. 
V irious-leaved Stork's-bill. 
P. variif oUum, caule subflexuoso erecto ramoso : ramis 
gracilibus ad geniculis nodosis, foliis inferioribus cor- 
datis tripartitis inciso-dentatis ; superioribus cuneato- 
ovatis, stipulis lanceolatis acutis, calycibus reflexis, 
petalis superioribus obovato-rotundatis : inferioribus 
cuneatis, tubo nectarifero calyce sesquilongiore. 
Pelargonium variifolium. Swt. hm^t. hrit. p. 84. n. 393. 
Stem shrubby, erect, branching; branches slender, 
swollen at the joints, and clothed with short unequal hairs. 
Leaves incised or sharply toothed with large teeth, pubes- 
cent on both sides : lower ones cordate, deeply 3-parted ; 
lower segments 2-lobed, sharply and unequally toothed ; 
terminal segment generally 5-lobed and sharply toothed : 
upper leaves ovate or cuneate, sharply cut or deeply 
toothed. Petioles flattened a little on the upper side, and 
rounded on the lower, thickly clothed with spreading 
unequal hairs. Stipules lanceolate, taper-pointed, clothed 
with short hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, axillary, or oppo- 
site to a leaf, clothed with spreading unequal hairs. Um- 
bels several flowered. Involucre of 6 lanceolate taper- 
pointed bractes. Pedicles unequal in length, generally 
longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, 
acute, upper one largest, erect, the others reflexed. Nec- 
tariferous tube about half as long again as the calyx, 
flattened and furrowed on each side, thinly clothed with 
hairs. Petals 5, the two uppermost roundly obovate, 
attenuated to the base, of a bright scarlet, with an inter- 
