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DIMACRIA depressa. 
Depressed umbelled Dimacria. 
D. depressa, acaulis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis integerrimis 
acutis glabris basi involutis attenuatis margine breviter 
ciliatis, stipulis barbatis, umbella composita depressa 
multiflora, pedicellis demum reflexis, floribus tetran- 
dris, filamentis 6 sterilibus erectis, petalis longis line- 
aribus, tubo nectarifero villoso calyce duplo longiore. 
Hoarea depressa. Swt. hort. hrit. p. 76. n. 24. 
Pelargonium depressum. J acq. ic. rar. 3. t. 520. Pers. 
syn. Q, p. 9,9,6. DC. prodr. 1 . p. 649. 
jRoof tuberous, fusiform. ^S^em none. Leaves crown- 
ing the root, and spreading round or sometimes erect, ob- 
longly lanceolate, acute, entire, smooth, but dotted with 
numerous small dots, attenuated towards the base and 
down the petiole, where it is a little involute, the margins 
a little fringed with short hairs. Petioles long and slender, 
flattened and furrowed on the- upper side, and convex on 
the lower, slightly pubescent, more so towards the base. 
Stipules linear, acute, attached to the base of the petioles, 
and densely bearded with long white hairs. Scapes several, 
erect, pubescent, each producing 2 to 4 umbels of flowers ; 
at the base of the peduncles is a whorl of linear, taper- 
pointed, very hairy bractes. Peduncles cylindrical, un- 
equal in length, thickly clothed with short rigid spreading 
hairs, that are all tipped with a small gland. Uvnbels from 
8 to 1 2-flowered, spreading flat. Involucre of numerous 
linear taper-pointed fringed bractes. Pedicles very short, 
or altogether wanting. Calyx 5 -cleft, segments lanceolate, 
acute, all reflexed, very hairy, the hairs all tipped with 
transparent glands. Nectariferous tube unequal in length, 
generally Q or 3 times longer than the calyx, thickly clothed 
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