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PELARGONIUM eonclausum. 
Shut-petaled Stork’s-bill. 
m 
P. conclcmsum, caule suffruticoso rugoso, foliis pinnatifi- 
dis pinnatisque pilosis: foliolis oppositis alternisque 
subsessilibus pinnatifido-lobatis inaequaliter obtuse den- 
tatis, Scapo folioso subramoso, umbellis multifloris, pe- 
talis inferioribus concavis conniventibus: superioribus 
cuneatis subemarginatis. 
Root tuberous, branching. Stem short and succulent, 
rugged, with few short branches. Leaves variable, pinnate, 
or pinnatifid, thickly clothed with short hairs, and longer 
ones intermixed: leaflets or segments opposite, or sometimes 
alternate, sessile or nearly so, short and broad, pinnatifid or 
deeply lobed, unequally toothed with blunt rounded teeth, 
the edges fringed with hairs. Petioles flattened on the upper 
side and rounded on the lower, thickly clothed with un¬ 
equal woolly hairs, as are the scapes, peduncles, calyx, and 
nectariferous tube. Stipules broadly lanceolate, acute, 
fringed, joined to the base of the peduncles. Scape branched, 
leafy, producing several umbels of flowers. Peduncles cy¬ 
lindrical, long, stoutish. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre 
of several lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles shorter 
than the bractes. Calyoc 5-cleft; the upper segment largest, 
erect, broadly lanceolate, concave, scarcely acute; the others 
narrower, reflexed. Nectariferous tube nearly double the 
length of the calyx, of a brownish purple. Petals 5, the two 
upper ones narrow at the base, wedge-shaped, slightly emar- 
ginate, of a dark crimson, inclining to purple, with two white 
lines near the base, and numerous dark stripes which branch 
nearly all over the petals: 3 lower ones roundly obovate, 
concave, closed up, so as sometimes to hide the stamens. 
Filaments 10, united at the base, ascending, 7 bearing an¬ 
thers. Style purple. Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed or revo¬ 
lute. 
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