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PELARGONIUM ternatum. 
Ternate-leaved Stork* s-hill. 
P. ternatum^ pedunculis subtrifloris, foliis ternatis cu- 
, cullatis scabris: foliolis sessilibus cuneiformibus 
inciso-dentatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce sesquilongiori. 
Pelargonium ternatum. PTillden. sp. pi. 3. p. 685. 
Botan. magaz. 413. Pers. syn. 2. p. 233. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 181. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 544. 
Coll. 5. p. 135. 
Geranium ternatum. Cavan. diss. 4. p. 255. t. 107. 
/•2. 
shrubby, much branched; branches slender, 
rigid, of a reddish brown colour, thickly covered with 
short unequal spreading hairs, as are the petioles, pe- 
duncles, and calyx. Leaves distichous, ternate, con- 
cave, rough and rigid, slightly hairy on each side : 
leaflets sessile, wedge-shaped, cloven or deeply lobed, 
and sharply toothed with brown rigid unequal teeth. 
Petioles about the length of the leaf, flattened on the 
upper side and convex on the lower, a little widened 
at the base, of a brown colour. Stipules lanceolate, 
taper-pointed, sometimes toothed. Peduncles 2 or 3- 
flowered. Involucre of from 4 to 6 bractes, which 
are subulately linear and fringed. Pedicles about the 
length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lan- 
ceolate, acute, all reflexed. Nectariferous tube un- 
equal in length, about half as long again as the calyx, 
flattened and furrowed on each side. Petals 5, the 
two upper ones widely spatulate, of a bright lilac, with 
two forked light purple lines near the base of each; 
lower petals spatulate, three times narrower than the 
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