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PELARGONIUM mundulum. 
Spruce Stork's Bill. 
P. mundulum, subcaulescens, scapo gracili longe ramoso, 
umbellis sub-8-floris, foliis pinnatifidis pinnatisque ea- 
nescentibus : foliolis segmentisque inferioribus 2-3-par- 
titis 2-3-lobisve: superioribus simplicibus lanceolatis 
ovatisque integerrimis acutis omnibus sericeo-canescen- 
tibus, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo longiore. 
Pelargonium mundulum. Swt. hort. hrit. p. 84. n, 394, 
Root tuberous, branching. Stem short, producing se- 
veral short stout branches. Leaves pinnate, or pinnatifid, 
thickly clothed with a short silky canescence : leaflets or seg- 
ments lanceolate or ovate and acute, the lower ones 2 or 3- 
parted, or 2 to 3-lobed : the upper ones entire, all clothed 
with a silky canescence. Petioles slender, nearly cylindri- 
cal, or slightly flattened on the upper side, densely clothed 
with short hairs and a few longer ones intermixed. Sti- 
pules lanceolate, acute, hairy and fringed with very short 
hairs, joined a good way up to the petioles. Scapes seve- 
ral, long and slender, and producing several umbels of 
flowers, leafy at the base of the peduncles, thickly clothed 
with white spreading hairs, very unequal in length. Pe- 
duncles cylindrical, long and slender, generally producing 
an umbel of 8 flowers, also clothed with spreading unequal 
hairs. Involucre of several lanceolate, acute, hairy and 
fringed bractes, some double the size of the others. Pedi- 
cles very short, or altogether wanting. Calyx 5 -cleft, seg- 
ments lanceolate, acute ; the upper one largest, erect, the 
others spreading or slightly reflexed, all densely clothed 
with soft woolly hairs. Nectariferous tube about double 
