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PELARGONIUM atrofuscum. 
Dark-hrown-marked Stork' s-bill. 
P. atrofuscum, umbellis plurifloris, foliis superioribus 
brevi-petiolatis trilobis rigidis insequaliter argute 
dentatis; basi cuneatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo 
nectarifero breviori calyce. 
Pelargonium purpureum, fuscuni. Hoare MSS. 
Stem shrubby, branching. Branches thickly clothed 
with long soft villous hairs. Leaves on the branches 
with very short footstalks, wedge-shaped at the base, 
deeply 3-lobed, sharply and very unequally toothed 
with stiff horny teeth, hairy on both sides, nerves much 
branched on the lower side, and furrowed on the up- 
per; upper leaves nearly sessile, sharp-pointed. Petioles 
very short, on the branches, shorter than the stipules, 
widely flattened and channelled on the upper and con- 
vex on the lower side, thickly covered with long un- 
equal villous hairs, as is every other part of the plant 
except the corolla. Stipules cordate, taper-pointed 
and ciliate. Peduncles several-flowered. Involucre 
generally of 6 ovate, concave, taper-pointed bractes. 
Pedicles di little longer than the bractes, but shorter 
than the nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-cleft, segments 
lanceolate, acute, the upper one widest, erect, the 
others reflexed. Nectariferous tube shorter than the 
calyx, flattened on both sides and gibbous at the base, 
of a reddish brown colour. Petals 5, the two upper 
ones roundly obovate, pu«ple, with a large dark brown 
patch in the centre, and Several dark brown lines run- 
ning through it; lower petals oblong, obtuse, of a 
blueish rose colour. Filaments 10, united at the base, 
7 bearing anthers. Germen and aristce villous. Style 
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