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PELARGONIUM magnistipulatum. 
Large-stipuled StorFs-bill, 
P. magnistipulatum, caule carnoso flexuoso ramoso; ra¬ 
mi s velutino-pubescentibus, foliis sinuatis ternatisque 
utrinque pilosis : laciniis rotundato-obtusis obtuse den- 
tatis: foliolis lateralibus minoribus sessilibus, stipulis 
foliaceis magnis petiolo adhaerentibus, umbellis multi- 
floris subpaniculatis, tubo nectar ifero calyce revoluto 
triplo longiore. 
Pelargonium magnistipulatum Swt hort, brit. addenda. 
Stem shrubby at the base, very thick and succulent, a 
little flexuose, branching: branches clothed with a short 
velvetty pubescence. Leaves numerous, spreading hori¬ 
zontally in all directions, deeply laciniate or nearly pinnati- 
fid, some of the larger ones ternate, all over hairy; lower 
leaflets small and sessile, terminal one large and elongated; 
segments spreading, bluntly rounded, and toothed with large 
bluntly rounded teeth. Petioles long, nearly cylindrical, and 
clothed with spreading unequal hairs. Stipules very large, 
leaf-like, with acute points, connected to the base of the 
petioles, their margins fringed. Flower-stem stout, leafy at 
the base of the peduncles, thickly clothed with spreading 
unequal hairs, very much swollen at the base, and at the 
bottom of the peduncles. Peduncles stout, cylindrical, 
thickly clothed with spreading woolly hairs. Involucre of 
6 or 7 narrowly lanceolate, or linear, acute, fringed braetes. 
Pedicles about the length of the braetes. Calyx -cleft, 
segments unequal, ovate or lanceolate, acute and fringed, 
upper one largest, erect, concave inwards, the others re¬ 
flexed or revolute. Nectariferous tube slender, about 3 
times the length of the calyx, channelled on each side, gib¬ 
bous at the base, thickly clothed with short spreading hairs. 
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