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PELARGONIUM volatiflorum. 
Flying-flowered Stork' s-hill. 
P. volatiflorum, ramis flexuosis gracilibus, foliis 3-partitis 
subcanescenti-pubescentibus : segmentis divaricatis den- 
tatis ; lateralibus bilobis terminalibus 3-5-lobis inciso- 
dentatis, stipulis cordato-ovatis acutis, umbellis pluri- 
floris paniculatis, petalis patentissimis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce subgequali. 
Pelargonium volatiflorum. Swt. hort. hrit, p. 84. n, 392. 
Stem shrubby, when large, clothed with a rough 
cracked bark, much branched : branches rather slender, 
flexuose, more or less spreading, thickly clothed with short 
spreading unequal white hairs. Leaves deeply 3-parted, 
thickly clothed on both sides with short white hairs, which 
gives them a hoary appearance : segments divaricately 
spreading, toothed with very unequal teeth, and tipped 
with bristle-like hairs : side ones 2-lobed : terminal one 3 
to 5-lobed ; unequally toothed or cut, teeth more or less 
acute. Petioles a little flattened on the upper side, and 
convex on the lower, thickly clothed with short spreading 
unequal hairs. Stipules cordately ovate, taper-pointed, 
very hairy and fringed. Peduncles 3 to 7-flowered, in a 
sort of panicle, thickly clothed with short hairs and a few 
longer ones intermixed. Involucre of 6 lanceolate, acute, 
fringed bractes. Pedicles shorter than the bractes. Flowers 
leaning forwards. Calya^ 5 -cleft, hairy, segments reflexed, 
acute, the upper one largest, oblong, keeled ; the others 
lanceolate or linear, the margins scariose or membrana- 
ceous. Petals 5, widely spreading, having an appearance 
'of flying; 2 upper ones narrowly spathulate, reflexed from 
