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PELARGONIUM pulcherrimiim. 
Beautiful Stork* s-bill. 
V.pulcherrimum, pedunculis plurifloris, foliis renifor- 
mibus planis obsolete lobatis margine undulatis 
insequaliter dentatis basi tmncatis, caule erecto 
ramosissimo, tubo nectarifero longitudine calycis. 
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Stem shrubby, erect, very much branched; hranches 
short, erect, thickly clothed with soft white unequal 
hairs' Leaves kidney-shaped, nearly twice as wide as 
I long, truncate at the base, margins undulate, sharply 
and unequally toothed, covered on both sides with very 
short hairs ; nerves numerous, much branched. Peti- 
oles slender, longer than the leaves, flattened and fur- 
rowed on the upper side and convex on the lower, 
thickly clothed with soft white hairs, as are the pe- 
duncles and calyx. Stipules lanceolate, acute, slightly 
fringed. Petoc/e* cylindrical, several-flowered. In- 
volucre of 6 short ovate bluntish bractes, ending 
abruptly in a short acute point. Pedicles slender, 
longer than ^he nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-cleft, seg- 
ments unequal, lanceolate, acute, concave. Nectarife- 
rous tube about the length of the calyx, flattened on 
each side and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two 
upper ones much the widest, roundly obovate, very 
unequal at the base, of a bright pink colour stained 
with red, with a large dark velvetty spot m the centre, 
and numerous dark lines of the same colour which 
I branch in all directions ; lower petals spatulately ob- 
ovate, of a bright rose-colour, stained in the centre 
and faintly marked with several lines. Filaments 10, 
united at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Pollen orange- 
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