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PELARGONIUM dilutum. 
Diluted Stork' s-bill. 
P. dilutum, foliis cordatis trilobis undulato-plicatis cartila- 
gineo-dentatis villoso-pilosis, stipulis ovatis acutis den- 
tatis villosis, pedunculis multifloris, calycibus reflexo- 
patentibus, tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali aut paulo 
breviore. 
Pelargonium dilutum. Swt. hori. hrit^p. 84. n. 386. 
Stem shrubby, erect, branching : branches thickly clo- 
thed with long spreading unequal villous hairs. Leaves 
cordate, 3-lobed, very much undulate or plaited, the edges 
more or less reflexed, sharply and rigidly toothed, with 
nearly equal cartilaginous teeth, clothed on both sides with 
soft villous hairs, strongly and numerously nerved under- 
neath. Petioles broad and stout, flattened on the upper 
side and convex on the lower, widened at the base, thickly 
clothed with long spreading unequal villous hairs, as is 
every other part of the plant except the corolla. Stipules 
ovate, taper-pointed, more or less toothed and ciliate. 
Umbels many-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical. Involu- 
cre of several ovate, taper-pointed, concave, fringed bractes, 
which are more or less imbricate. Pedicles about the length 
of the bractes, or sometimes a Httle longer. Caly^ .5-cleft, 
segments lanceolate, acute, spreading or slightly reflexed, 
of a brownish colour. Nectanferous tube about the length 
of, or scarcely as long as the calyx, flattened on each side, 
and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the 2 upper ones obo- 
vate, oblique at the base, of a red purple, more or less 
stained, and marked with numerous dark lines, which branch 
and cross each other, below those are 2 white lines : lower 
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