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PHYMATANTHUS elatus. 
Tall TVart-flower. 
P. elatus, pedunculis subtrifloris, foliis lanceolatis ca- 
nescentibus inciso-dentatis, petalis superioribus ma- 
joribus, caule fruticoso erecto, calycibus reflexis, 
tubo nectarifero calyce duplo breviori. 
Phymatanthus elatus. Noh. in Colv. Catal. p. 22. col. 3. 
Geranium tricolor, arborea. Andrews's geran. c. ic. 
Stem shrubby, branching, rough, and rugged, oc- 
casioned by the bases of the footstalks ; branches 
slender, erect, thickly clothed with a short white pu- 
bescence. Leaves lanceolate, acute, unequally cut and 
sharply toothed, canescent, thickly covered with soft 
white down. Petioles long and slender, slightly flat- 
tened above and rounded below. Stipules subulate, 
bases persistent. Peduncles cylindrical, long and slen- 
der, generally 3-flowered, thickly clothed with short 
soft down, as are the pedicles, bractes, and calyx. In- 
volucre of 6 subulate, concave, fringed bractes. Pedicles 
slender, curved upwards, the flowers leaning forwards. 
Cali/x 5-cleft, segments broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 
reflexed. Nectariferous tube short, keeled on each 
side, about half the length of the calyx. Petals 5, un- 
equal, the 2 uppermost largest, nearly orbicular, of a 
dark red colour, reticulately marked with numerous 
black lines, which gives the whole a dark velvetty ap- 
pearance: at the base, above the unguis, is a velvetty 
black spot, swollen irregularly into little blisters or 
warts (not regularly warted as in P. tricolor): lower 
petals oblong or narrowly obovate, concave, white. 
Filaments 10, very hairy, united at the base, 5 only 
