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PELARGONIUM Lamberti. 
LamherVs Stor¥s-hill. 
P. Lamberti, pedunculis paucifloris, foliis cuneatis tri- 
fidis ; segmentis acutis lobatis inciso-serratis, caule 
ramosissimo, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce longiori. 
Pelargonium Lambertia. Hoare Geran. p. 24. n. 335. 
Stem shrubby, much branched, and clothed with 
a brown cracked bark ; branches numerous, slender, 
upright, or slightly spreading, clothed with unequal 
spreading hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and ca- 
lyx. Leaves wedge-shaped, trifid, clothed on both 
sides with a close short pubescence, and a few hairs 
scattered round the edges ; upper segment widest, ge- 
nerally 3-lobed, sharply and deeply serrated; side 
ones lanceolate, acute ; on the lower part of the plant 
lobed, deeply and sharply serrate, on the upper part 
entire; sometimes the upper leaves are quite entire 
and lanceolate. Petioles very short, flattened and fur- 
rowed on the upper side and convex on the lower. , 
Stipules cordate at the base and terminating in a long 
taper point, fringed. Peduncles numerous, reaching 
far beyond the leaves, 2 to 4-flowered. Involucre of 
4 or 5 bractes; bractes ovate, acute, with reflexed, 
fringed margins. Pedicles unequal in length, longer 
than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, 
reflected. Nectariferous tube flattened and furrowed 
on each side, slightly recurved, longer than the calyx, 
thickly clothed with unequal spreading hairs. Petals 
5, the two uppermost widely obovate, of a light rose- 
colour, with a dark velvet spot in the centre, which 
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