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PELARGONIUM licmlatmri. 
LIBRARY 
Ligulate-petaled Stork’s-bitt. new York 
BOTANICAL 
■ —* GARDEN. 
I 5 , ligulatum, subcaulescens, foliis pinnatis pinnatifidisque 
pilosis : foliolis segmentisque pinnatifido-laciniatis inae- 
qualiter obtuse dentatis, scapo flexuoso ramoso, umbellis 
multifloris, petalis ligulatis, tiibo nectarifero calyce ses- 
quilbngiore. 
Pelargonium ligulatum. Swt. hort . brit.p. 84. n. 391 * 
Moot tuberous. Stem very short arid succulent, rough 
and scaly. heaves growing close together, pinnate or pin- 
riatifid, thickly covered with long spreading hairs : leaflets 
or segments opposite, rather distant, pinnatifid or laciniate, 
the divisions toothed or incised, bluntish. Petioles a little 
flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, vil- 
losely hairy. Stipules broadly lanceolate, acute, hairy and 
fringed, joined to the base of the petioles. Scape short and 
stout, flexuose, branching, villosely hairy, and producing 
small leaves at the base of the peduncles. Peduncles bent, 
ascending, rather succulent, villosely hairy. Umbels many 
flowered. Involucre of numerous linearly lanceolate taper- 
pointed, ciliated bractes. Pedicles none, or very short. 
Calyx 3-cleft, segments long, lanceolate, acute, the upper 
one much the largest, erect, the others reflexed, all thickly 
clothed with spreading villous hairs. Nectariferous tube 
slender at the base and gradually widening upwards, of a 
brownish purple, hairy, about half as long again as the 
calyx. Petals 5, ligulate or strap-shaped, the upper ones 
rather the longest, lower ones divaricately spreading, all of 
a bright scarlet, the upper ones marked with a few branching 
lines near the base. Filaments 10 , united at the base, very 
unequal in length, 7 bearing anthers. Style short, purple, 
Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed. 
VOL. IV. 
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