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PELARGONIUM veniferum. 
Veined petaled Stork's-bill. 
P. veniferum ,, foliis cordato-ovatis undulatis inaequaliter 
cartilagineo-dentatis utrinque pilosis, stipulis ovatis 
acutis villosis, pedunculis phirifloris, petalis omnibus 
ovatis venosis, calycibus acuminatis patentibus, tubo 
nectarifero calyce villoso duplo breviore. 
Pelargonium veniferum. Swt. hort. brit. addenda. 
Stem shrubby, branching: branches thickly clothed 
with spreading unequal villous hairs. Leaves cordately 
oVate, more or less undulate, sharply toothed with unequal, 
long, horny teeth, slightly fringed and hairy on both sides, 
underneath strongly nerved, the nerves branching. Peti¬ 
oles flat on the upper side and convex on the lower, a little 
widened at the base. Stipules ovate, acute, villous. Pe¬ 
duncles several-flowered, thickly clothed with unequal 
villous hairs. Involucre of 6 or 7 broadly ovate, acute, 
concave, villous bractes, which are terminated in a sharp 
niucro, and are sometimes toothed, of a brown colour. 
Pedicles longer than the bractes, villous. Calyon. 5-cleft, 
segments long, lanceolate, tapering to a long slender point, 
sometimes a little twisted, spreading, villous, of a brown 
purple colour. Nectarif erous tube about half the length 
of the calyx, of a brown colour, flattened on each side, 
villous. Petals all ovate ; the two upper ones broadest, 
very unequal sided near the base, of a lilac colour, with a 
large purple patch in the centre, and from the base are nu¬ 
merous purple veins, which branch all over the petals, un¬ 
derneath strongly two-nerved, the nerves forked: lower 
petals of a lighter colour, with two or three purple veins 
from the base, underneath 4-nerved, the nerves much 
branched. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 bearing 
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