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PELARGONIUM Thynneee. 
The Marchioness of Bathes Stork' s-hill. 
P. Thynnece, pedunculis plurifloris, foliis oblatis reni- 
formibus trilobis planis rigidis glabriusculis ; lobis 
obtusissimis insequaliter dentatis, stipulis oblato- 
cordatis acuminatis ciliatis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
longiori. 
Pelargonium Bathonise. Hoare MSS. 
Stem shrubby, much branched, and clothed with a 
smooth shining brown bark. Branches shprt and 
crowded, a little swollen at the base, thickly covered 
with soft unequal hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, 
and caljrx. Leaves flat, wider than long, kidney- 
shaped, three-lobed, rigid, smoothish and shining, 
thinly covered with short hairs, furrowed on the upper 
side, and prominently nerved on the lower ; lobes very 
blunt, unequally toothed with blunt rounded teeth, 
slightly fringed. Petioles a little longer than the leaf, 
flattened and furrowed on the upper side, and convex 
on the lower; a little swollen at the base of the leaf. 
Stipules wider than long, cordate, ciliate, and ending 
in a sharp point. Peduncles several-flowered. Involucre 
generally of 6 bractes ; hractes widely ovate, concave, 
fringed, bluntish but ending abruptly in an acute 
point. Pedicles bent upwards, shorter than the necta- 
riferous tube. Calyx of 5 widely lanceolate acute seg- 
ments ; segments reflexed when the flower is expanded. 
Nectariferous tube a little longer than the calyx, widely 
flattened and furrowed on each side, gibbous at the 
base. Petals 5, the 2 uppermost roundly ovate, of a 
rose colour, with a bright red spot in the centre, which 
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