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PELARGONIUM chenopodiifolium. 
Goose-foot-leaved StorJc’s-bill. 
P. chenopodiifolium, caule paniculato-ramoso, foliis cor- 
dato-ovatis sinuato-lobatis obtusis planis pulverulento- 
pubescentibus denticulatis, stipulis cordato-ovatis acutis 
ciliatis, pedunculis plurifloris paniculatis, tubo necta- 
rifero calyce parum longiore. 
Pelargonium chenopodiifolium. Swt hart. brit. addenda. 
Stem shrubby, rather succulent, paniculately branched; 
branches flexuose, clothed with a short dense woolly pu¬ 
bescence, and some longer hairs intermixed. Leaves flat, 
cordately ovate, bluntly rounded, more or less deeply sinu- 
ately lobed, and clothed with a mealy pubescence, under¬ 
neath strongly and numerously nerved, the nerves hairy 
and branched: lobes spreading, flat, wedge-shaped, and 
toothed with small sharp teeth. Petioles flattened and chan¬ 
nelled on the upper side, and convex on the lower; thickly 
clothed with short woolly hairs, and some longer ones inter¬ 
mixed, as are the peduncles, bractes, pedicles, and calyx. 
Stipules broad, cordately ovate, acute, fringed. Pedun¬ 
cles panicled, several-flowered. Involucre of 6 lanceolate, 
acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles about the length of or a 
little longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft; upper seg¬ 
ment erect, ovate, acute, keeled at the back, the others lan¬ 
ceolate, fringed, and reflexed. Nectariferous tube a little 
longer than the calyx, much flattened on each side, and 
gibbous at the base. Petals 5, of a bright orangy scarlet, 
the two upper ones obovate, unequal sided, and marked 
with numerous dark branched lines, underneath strongly 
2 -nerved : lower ones obovately ligulate, of rather a lighter 
colour. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing 
