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PELARGONIUM echinatum. 
Prickli/ stalked Stork's- bill. 
P. echinatum, umbellis multifloris paniculatis, foliis 
cordatis leviter quinquelobis crenatis subtus tomen- 
tosis, caule crasso carnoso, stipulis subulatis per- 
sistentibus spinescentibus hamato-recurvis. 
Pelargonium echinatum. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 675. 
Botan. maga%. 309. Pers. syn. 2. p, 232. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 176. 
Pelargonium hamatum. Jacq. hort. schcenh. 2. p. 7. t. 
138. 
Geranium echinatum. Andrews's geran. n. 2. 
Root fleshy, producing tubers at various dis- 
tances. Stem shrubby, succulent, of a shining brown 
colour, covered all over with persistent recurved spiny 
stipules. Branches of a shining green, slightly pubes- 
cent. Leaves cordate, from 3 to 5-lobedj crenate, 
green and pubescent on the upper side, and densely 
tomentose underneath, 3-nerved at the base, which 
afterwards branch in all directions. Petiole slightly 
flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, 
thickly covered with very short riecurved hairs. Stipules 
subulate, widened at the base, remaining persistent, 
and hardening into a kind of spine, with hooked or re- 
curved points. Peduncles panicled, very long, cylin- 
drical, thickened at the base, thickly clothed with 
short reflexed hairs, and bearing numerous many- 
flowered umbels. Involucre of many bractes; bractes 
oblong or lanceolate, taper-pointed, hairy and ciliate. 
Calyx 5>-cleft, upper segment erect, lanceolate, con- 
cave, obtuse, and bearded at the point, the others 
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