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PELARGONIUM trifoliatum. 
Glaucous trifoliate-leaved Stork' s-hill. 
P. trifoliatum, glaberrimum glaucum, caule fruticoso ra- 
mosissimo : ramis gracilibus glabris, foliis trifoliolatis : 
foliolis integerrimis linearibus utrinque acuminatis sub- 
tus carinatis scabris ; lateralibus brevioribus divaricatis, 
stipulis lineari-subulatis, pedunculis unifloris, tubo nee- 
tarifero calyce subgequali. 
Pelargonium trifoliatum. Swt. hcn't. hit. p. 8Q. n. 
Geranium trifoliatum. Andrews sger an. c.ic. 
Pelargonium oxyphyllum. DC. prodr. I. p.667. 
Stem shrubby, very much branched, smooth and glossy : 
branches slender, flexuose, swollen at the joints, lower part 
and joints very red. Leaves glaucous, trifoliate : leaflets 
entire, spreading, the middle one longest, tapering at both 
ends, linear, sharp-pointed, channelled, the sides folded in- 
wards, sharply keeled at the back, the keel rough like a 
rasp : back ones shortest, divaricate. Petioles slender, a 
little flattened on the upper side, and rounded on the lower. 
Stipules subulately linear, red. Peduncles slender, thick- 
ened at the base, one-flowered. Involucre of 2 linearly 
subulate bractes. Pedicles shorter than the bractes. Calijiff' 
5-cleft, smooth, segments lanceolate, taper- pointed, the 
upper one largest. Nectariferous tube about the length 
of the calyx, flattened on each side, and gibbous at the base. 
Petals 5, the two upper ones broadest, spatulate, rounded 
or sometimes slightly emarginate, white, more or less marked 
at the base with red stripes, lower ones ligulate, white with 
a small red stripe at the base. Stamens 10 : flaments^ 
united at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Style smooth. Stig- 
mas 5, reflexed. 
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