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PELARGONIUM luridum. 
Lurid StorUs-hill. 
P. luridum, radice tuberoso maximo rugoso-corticata squa- 
moso, foliis ovatis obtuse dentatis incisisve glabris sub- 
pubescentibus, scapo simplici, umbellis multifloris pa- 
tentissimis, floribus longissime pedicellatis, petalis 
subaequalibus obovatis demum reflexis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce quintuple longiore. 
Pelargonium luridum. Colv. catal. ed. 2. p. 22. col. 1. 
Swt. hort. hrit. p. 78. n. 45. 
Geranium luridum. Andrews's geran. c. ic. 
Pelargonium hurasfolium Colv. catal. ed. 1. p. 9,1. col. 2. 
Root tuberous, very large, oval or oblong, and clothed 
with a thick hard woody bark, that is cracked irregularly, 
and scales off like the bark of a tree. Stems very short, or 
none. Leaves broadly ovate, rounded at the base, or 
sometimes cuneate, bluntish, incised, and toothed with 
large bluntly rounded teeth, of a glossy green on the upper 
side, the underside and margins slightly hairy. Petioles 
unequally hairy. Stipules subpersistent, ovately lanceo- 
late, acute, turning dark brown by age. Scapes simple, 
several from one root, sometimes with a leaf or two near 
the base, at other times without; about the size of a 
Raven's quill, clothed with very short unequal, almost 
gland-like hairs, or short pubescence. Involucre of nume- 
rous small taper-pointed bractes. Umbels from 15 to 24- 
flowered, divaricately spreading. Pedicles very long, 
thickly clothed with short, but unequal hairs, a little swoln 
and transparent where joined to the nectariferous tube. 
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