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PELARGONIUM pallens. 
Cream-coloured Stork's- bill. 
P. pallens, umbellis plurifloris, scapo ramoso, foliis 
tripartitis pilosis ; segmentis lateralibus minoribus 
lobato-dentatis : terminalibus elongatis inciso-den- 
. V tatis, petalis patentibus, caule sufFruticoso carnoso 
decumbente. 
.Geranium pallens. Andrews's geran. c. ic. 
* Stem sufFruticose, short and succulent, branched: 
branches decumbent and swollen at irregular distances. 
Leaves deeply 3-parted, hairy : lower segments small, 
divaricate, sometimes lobed, unequally toothed ; upper 
one elongated, obovate, unequally cut and toothed, 
teeth terminated with a small arista. Petioles slender, 
slightly flattened on the upper side and rounded on the 
lower, widened at the base, thinly clothed with long 
white horizontal hairs, as are the peduncles, calyx, and 
nectariferous tube. Stipules joined to the base of the 
petioles, widely lanceolate, taper-pointed, and generally 
forked. Scape branching and leafy at the base of the 
peduncles. Peduncles cylindrical, a little bent up- 
wards, several-flowered. Invhlucre of several bractes, 
which are lanceolate, acute, and fringed. Calyx 5-cleft, 
segments lanceolate, acute, fringed ; the upper one 
erect, the others reflexed or revolute. Nectariferous 
tube sessile, very long, but unequal in length, four or 
five times as long as the calyx, much flattened and fur- 
i rowed on each side. Petals 5, spreading, of a pale 
1 cream-colour, the two upper ones obovate, emarginate, 
; slightly reflexed, lower ones spatulate. Filaments 10, 
I slightly united at the base, 7 bearing anthers, the two 
; upper ones very short, nearly sessile, three about half 
