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PELARGONIUM Blandfordianum. 
Hoary 'leaved Stork* s-bill. 
P. Blandfordianum, umbellis multifloris, foliis pal- 
mato-septemlobatis ; segmentis pinnatifido-incisis 
obtuse dentatis planis canescentibus, petalis supe- 
rioribus obcordatis, tubo nectarifero longitudine 
calycis. 
Pelargonium Blandfordianum. Nob. in Colv. Catal. 
p. 22. col. 2. 
Pelargonium candidum. Hort. sub. lond. p. 152. 
n. 135. 
Geranium Blandfordium. Andrews's geran. c. ic. 
Stem shrubby, branching, swelled at the joints; 
branches roughish, thickly clothed with a close-pressed 
white powdery pubescence, as are the leaves, peduncles, 
and calyx. Leaves flat, palmately 7-lobed ; lower seg- 
ments deeply lobed or pinnatifid, upper ones more 
slightly lobed, all bluntly toothed, strong-scented. 
Petioles flattened and furrowed on the upper side and 
convex on the lower, a little swollen at the base. Sti- 
pules cordate, acute, ciliate. Peduncles cylindrical, 
swollen at the base. Umbels many-flowered. Invo- 
lucre of 6 or 7 widely lanceolate, concave bractes. 
Pedicles longer than the nectariferous tube. Cali/x 5- 
cleft, segments lanceolate, erect, bluntish. Nectari- 
ferous tube about the length of the calyx, flattened and 
furrowed on both sides. Petals 5, the 2 upper ones 
obcordate, white or pale blush, marked in the centre 
with 2 red confluent spots, and below that are other 
purplish marks ; lower petals widely ligulate, white or 
pale blush. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 bear- 
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