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PELARGONIUM quadriflorum. 
Four-flowered Stork's-hill. 
P, quadriflorwm, foliis eordatis tripartite coneavis bullato- 
rugosis utrinque pubeseentibus: segmentis lobatis ob¬ 
tuse dentatis margine subinpurvis, stipulis ovatis acutis 
ciliatis, pedunculis quadrifloris, petals superioribus 
margine subincurvis, ealycibus reflexis, tubo neetarifero 
calyce duplp longiore. 
Pelargonium quadriflorum. hort. fait, addenda. 
Stem suffruticose, much branched: branches spreading, 
thickly clothed with small downy hairs, and some longer 
ones intermixed. Leaves cordate, blunt, 3-parted, blis¬ 
tered or rugose, clothed on both sides with short downy 
white hairs, the margins fringed with short hairs: segments 
oblong or cuneate, and unequally toothed with bluntly 
rounded teeth, the margins more or less bent inwards; ter¬ 
minal one largest, three-lobed; side ones deeply two-lobed. 
Petioles slender, flattened a little on the upper side and 
rounded on the lower, thickly clothed with unequal spread¬ 
ing white hairs, as are the stipules, peduncles, bractes, and 
calyx. Stipules short, ovate, acute, fringed. Peduncles 
cylindrical, generally 4-flowered. Involucre of 6 lanceo¬ 
late, acute, keeled bractes. Pedicles slender, bent up¬ 
wards, longer than the bractes. Calyon 5-cleft, segments 
lanceolate, acute, keeled, the upper one erect, the others 
reflexed. Petals 5, the two upper ones obovate, unequal 
sided, of a bright orangy scarlet stained with brown, with a 
faint brown patch in the centre, below which branch nume¬ 
rous dark lines, strongly 2-nerved at the back, the nerves 
branched; lower petals ligulate, of a lighter colour, 4-veined 
at the back, spreading. Filaments 10, connected at the 
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