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PELARGONIUM flexuosum. 
Zigzag -stalked Stork*s-bill. 
V, flexuosum, umbellis multifloris subpaniculatis, foliis 
cordato-ovatis incisis dentatis subtus tomentosis, 
stipulis lanceolatis acutis subpersistentibus, caule 
crasso flexuoso, tubo nectarifero calyce triple lon- 
giori. 
Stem shrubby, succulent, hard, and brittle, flexuose, 
scarcely branching. Leaves cordately ovate, deeply 
and unequally incised, and toothed with blunt rounded 
teeth, tomentose underneath and strongly nerved: 
when young, hollowed on the upper side, afterwards 
becoming flat. Petioles flattened on the upper side 
and rounded on the lower, swollen at the base, and 
covered with a short downy pubescence, as are the 
peduncles and calyx. Stipules lanceolate, taper-point- 
ed, partly remaining persistent, when they turn of a 
brown horn-colour. Peduncles many-flowered, in a 
kind of panicle terminating the stem. Involucre of 
from six to eight linear, pointed bractes. Pedicles 
short, scarcely half the length of the bractes. Calyx 
5-cleft, segments lanceolate, fringed, all reflexed. 
Neetarifermis tube about three times the length of the 
calyx, flattened and furrowed on each side, pubescent. 
Petals 5, spreading, the two upper ones obovate, of 
an orangy scarlet, and from the base branch numerous 
lines in various directions : lower petals ligulate of the 
same colour, each marked with a dark spot. Fila- 
ments 10, united into a tube, seven bearing anthers, 
which in our specimens have always been without pol- 
len. Style short, red, slightly hairy at the base and 
smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, revolute. 
