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PELARGONIUM fragians. 
Nutmeg -scented Stork's-bill. 
V.fragrans, pedunculis multifloris subpaniculatis, foliis 
. subrotundo-cordatis subtrilobis obtuse dentatis 
t - moUissimis, caule erecto fruticoso ; ramis divari- 
cato-deflexis, petalis superioribus minoribus, tubo 
i : . nectarifero calyce sesquilongiori. 
Pelargonium fragrans. ff^illd. Hort. Ber. 2. t. 77. 
Enum. 2. p. 701. Hort. sub. lond. 151. Link 
enum. 2. p. 187. 
Geranium odoratissimum, erectum. Andrews's Geran. 
c. ic. 
Stem shrubby, erect, covered with a brown scaly 
bark, very much branched; branches spreading, often 
j bent downwards, occasioned by the weight of the nu- 
'■ merous leaves and flowers, thickly clothed with a short 
mealy pubescence. Leaves roundly cordate, generally 
3-lobed, bluntly toothed or crenate, strongly veined 
underneath, densely clothed with a soft short mealy 
pubescence. Petioles longer than the leaves, widest at 
the base and gradually tapering upwards ; flattened on 
the upper side and convex on the lower, thickly clothed 
with a dense mealy pubescence, as are the peduncles 
and calyx. Stipules cordate, acute, ciliate. Peduncles 
generally in panicles, cylindrical, bearing umbels of 
many flowers. Involucre of numerous unequal, ovate 
or lanceolate, acute, keeled bractes. Pedicles un- 
equal, some about the length of the nectariferous 
tube, others much shorter. Calyx 5-cleft, segments 
broadly lanceolate, acute, upper segment erect, the 
others reflexed. Nectariferous tube about half as long 
agam as the calyx, flattened on each side and gibbous 
