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PELARGONIUM Scarboroviae. 
Countess of Scarboroug h's Stork's-bilL 
P. Scarborovice, umbellis 3-4 florisve, foliis subtrifidis 
glabris rigidis ineequaliter argute dentatis: seg- 
mentis inferioribus divaricatis superioribus trilobis, 
stipulis cordatis acuminatis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
parum breviori. 
Lady Scarborough's Geranium. Hortulanorum. 
Stem shrubby, branching : branches long, slender- 
ish, smooth and shining, but thinly covered with short 
white unequal hairs. Leaves small, about as wide as 
long, subtrifid or deeply 3-lobed, smooth, rigid, deeply 
but unequally toothed with sharp rigid teetli and finely 
ciliated round the edges : lower segments spreading, 
upper one much larger and 3-lobed. Petioles scarcely 
the length of the leaf, upper ones much shorter, flat- 
tened and slightly furrowed on the upper side and con- 
vex on the lower, clothed with short stiff hairs, as are 
the nerves of the leaves, peduncles, and calyx. Stipules 
cordate, acuminate, rarely toothed, margins reflected. 
Peduncles axillary or opposite to the leaf, nearly cylin- 
drical, 3 or 4 flowered. Involucre of about six une- 
qual, lanceolate, acute, keeled bractes. Pedicles longer 
than the nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-cleft, segments 
unequal, erect, lanceolate, acuminate. Nectariferous 
tube flattened on each side, gibbous at the base, 
scarcely as long as the calyx. Petals 5, obovate, the 
two uppermost largest, red or pink with a dark velvetty 
spot in the centre, and from it and the base branch 
several dark lines : lower petals pale lilac, sometimes 
a little stained with red. Filaments 10, united at the 
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