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PHYMATANTHUS tricolor. 
Three-coloured Wart-flower, 
Phymatanthus, Pet. 6 insequalia: duo superiora ap- 
proximata supr^ unguem verrucosa. Stam. tubo 
brevissimo: 5 fertilia recurvo-patentia; 5 sterilium 
duo superiora paulo elongata recta. Lindley MSS. 
P. tricolor, pedunculis subtrifloris, foliis lanceolatis 
villoso-canescentibus inciso-dentatis subtrifidis, peta- 
lis superioribus minoribus, caule sufFruticoso erecto, 
tubo nectarifero calyce duplo breviori. 
Pelargonium tricolor. fVillden. sp. pi. 3. p. 660. Pers. 
syn. 2. p. 229. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 169. 
Bot. magaz. 240. 
Pelargonium violarium. Jacq. ic. rar, 3. t, 527. col- 
lect. 5. p. 129. 
Geranium tricolor. Andrews's geran. c. ic. 
Stem sufFruticose, erect, branching, of a brown co- 
lour, very rough and rugged, occasioned by the per- 
sistent stipules. Branches short, spreading. Leaves 
various in form, lanceolate, sometimes trifid, deeply in- 
cised or toothed, thickly covered with soft white hairs, 
some of the lower incisures again toothed. Petioles 
long and slender, flat on the upper side and convex 
below, thickly clothed with soft white reflexed hairs. 
Stipules subulate, dilated at the base, persistent. Pe- 
duncles cylindrical, generally 3-flowered, recurved 
when in bud, but curved back when the flowers are 
expanded; thickly covered with spreading unequal 
hairs. Involucre of 6 subulate spreading bractes. Pe- 
dicles cylindrical, bent in the same manner as the pe- 
duncle, the flowers leaning forward. Calyx 5-cleft, 
