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CICONIUM cerinum. 
Wax-Jlowered Ciconium. 
€. cerinum, umbellis multifloris, foliis rotundato-reni- 
formibus obsolete crenulatis nervosis pubescentibus 
' moUissimis, stipulis cordatis subdentatis, caule 
• erecto, petalis obovatis superioribus minoribus, 
' tubo neetarifero calyce duplo longiori. 
Pelargonium cerinum. Colv. catal. p. 22. col. 3. 
Ciconium cerinum. Colv. catal. ed. 2. p. 21. col. I. 
Stem erect, shrubby, not much branched ; branches 
erect, thickly clothed with short soft villous hairs. 
Leaves roundly' reniform, scarcely undulate, slightly 
crenulate, strongly nerved, thickly covered on both 
sides with a thick soft pubescence, which gives 
them a soft velvetty feel. Petioles flattened and fur- 
rowed on the upper side and convex on the lower, a 
little widened at the base, very thickly clothed with 
short soft villous hairs, as are the peduncles and nec- 
tariferous tube. Stipules very large, cordate, acute, 
sometimes toothed, pubescent. Peduncles solitary, cy- 
lindrical, a little swollen at the base. Umbels many- 
flowered. Involucre of numerous, unequal, concave 
bractes, some cordate, others lanceolate, acute, thickly 
clothed with long villous hairs, as are the segments of 
the calyx. Pedicles very short, about half the length 
of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, 
concave, fringed. Nectariferous tube more than double 
the length of the calyx, flattened and furrowed on 
each side. Petals 5, obovate, of a bright pink, having 
a waxy appearance, the two uppermost smallest. Fi- 
laments 10, short and erect, united at the base, some- 
