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PELARGONIUM nitidum. 
Glossy Stm^k's-bill. 
P. nitidum^ caule erecto fruticoso subcarnoso squamoso, 
foliis tripartitis laciniato-lobatis nitidis margine subci- 
liatis, stipulis persistentibus ovatis obtusis petiolo adhse- 
rentibus, umbellis multifloris subpaniculatis, petalis ve- 
nosis, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo longiore. 
Pelargonium nitidum. Swt. hort. hrit. p. 77. n. 24. 
Stem shrubby, erect, a little succulent, clothed with a 
brown glossy bark, and scaly, owing to the persistent sti- 
pules and base of the footstalks, very little branched. 
Leaves succulent, deeply 3-parted, or sometimes ternate, 
unequally lobed and jagged, smooth and glossy, the mar- 
gins slightly fringed : leaflets or segments spreading, and 
toothed with unequal bluntish teeth. Petioles long, nearly 
cylindrical, or slightly furrowed on the upper side, thinly 
clothed with hairs. Stipules large, ovate, obtuse, a little 
concave, joined to the base of the petioles, and with them 
remaining persistent. Umbels many-flowered, in a sort of 
panicle. Peduncles swollen at the base, slightly hairy. 
Involucre of numerous lanceolate acute bractes. Pedicles 
nearly twice the length of the bractes, slightly pubescent. 
Calyx 5-cleft, hollow at the base ; upper segment ovate, 
concave, erect ; the others narrower, reflexed. Nectarife- 
rous tube about double the length of the calyx, gibbous at 
the base, scarcely pubescent. Petals 5, spreading, obo- 
vate, of a light scarlet, approaching to salmon colour, and 
elegantly marked with dark branching lines, the 2 upper 
ones about double the size of the others. Filaments \0y 
united at the base, seven bearing anthers, which were all 
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