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PELARGONIUM patens. 
Spreading -flowered Stork's- hill. 
P. patens, umbellis multifloris subsimplicibus, foliis 
ternatis: foliolis sessilibus inciso-dentatis obtusis, 
caule carnoso sufFruticoso erecto, petalis ligulatis 
patentibus, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero ca- 
lyce duplo longiori. 
Root tuberous, very large and brancbed out into 
other smaller tubers. Stem very short, succulent, erect, 
and rigid, thickly clothed with short soft hairs. Leaves 
growing in a radiate form, ternate: leaflets sessile, 
blunt, unequally cut and toothed with very blunt 
teeth ; middle one much longer than the side ones, 
more divided. Petioles long, flattened on the upper 
side and rounded on the lower, widened at the base, 
thickly clothed with unequal spreading hairs, as are 
the peduncles and nectariferous tube. Stipides lan- 
ceolate, taper-pointed and joined to the base of the 
petioles. Scape long, simple ? leafy at the joint. Pe- 
duncle very long, cylindrical, in our specimen 15-flow- 
ered. Involucre of numerous narrowly lanceolate, 
acute, fringed bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lan- 
ceolate, upper one much the largest, concave, erect, 
the others reflexed. Nectariferous tube flattened on 
each side, gradually widened upwards, about twice the 
length of the calyx. Petals 5, ligulate, the two up- 
permost widest, slightly emarginate, of a bright scarlet, 
shaded with a darker colour, and marked near the 
base with a few short forked lines ; lower petals nar- 
rower, of a lighter colour, white at the base. Filaments 
10, united at the base, 7 bearing anthers, which in our 
specimen were all destitute of pollen. Germen and 
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