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OTIDIA alternans. 
Parsley -leaved Otidia. 
O. alternans, caule fniticoso subcarnoso; ramis pilosis, 
foliis pinnatisectis ; segmentis petiolulatis subalternis 
cuneiform ibus apice inciso-dentatis, umbellis paucifloris. 
DC. prodr. 1 . p. 655. 
Otidia alternans. Swt. horf. hrit. p. 75. n. 6. Colv, catal. 
ed. %p. 22. 
Pelargonium alternans. Wendl. h. herren. 1. j3. 14. t. 9. 
TVillden. sp.pl. S.p. 687. Pers. syn. %p. 233. Hwt. 
Kew. ed. 2. v. 4!. p. 182. 
Pelargonium alternatim-pinnatum. Wendl. ohs. p. 53. 
Stem succulent, very much branched : branches short, 
erect, succulent, rough and knotted, compact, clothed with 
a brown glossy bark ; the young shoots thickly clothed with 
short densely villous hairs. Leaves pinnate, thickly clothed 
with long white hairs : leaflets petiolate, generally alter- 
nate, cuneate, 3-lobed or 3-parted, the points curled or 
undulate, more or less cut or toothed, the teeth bluntish. 
Petioles slender, slightly flattened on the upper side and 
rounded on the lower, thickly clothed with long spreading 
white hairs, of very unequal lengths. Stipules short, cor- 
dately ovate, acute, rather succulent, but soon becoming 
brown and scariose. Peduncles 2 to 4-flowered, terminal, 
thickly clothed with unequal, spreading hairs. Involucre 
of 6 narrow lanceolate, very hairy bractes, points bearded. 
Pedicles very short. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lan- 
ceolate, concave, acute, very hairy and fringed, longer than 
the nectariferous tube, spreading or slightly reflexed. Nec- 
tariferous tube short, flattened on each side, gibbous at 
the base. Petals 5, nearly equal in size, narrowly spatu- 
late, white : the 2 upper ones narrow at the base, reflexed 
from about the middle, with 2 red lines near the centre, 
eared a little above the base. Stamens 10, ignited at the 
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