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PELARGONIUM chelidoniifolium. 
Chelidonium-leaved Stork’s-bill. 
P. chelidoniifolium , villosum, foliis cordatis oblongis sub- 
tripartitis sinuato-lobatis undulatis grosse dentatis, sti- 
pulis ovatis acutis, pedunculis plurifloris, petalis undu¬ 
latis, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo longiore. 
Pelargonium chelidoniifolium. Swt, hort\ brit. add.p. 471. 
n. 409. 
Stem shrubby, with few branches, thickly clothed with 
spreading villous hairs, as is every other part of the plant 
except the corolla. Leaves cordate, oblong, sinuately lobed 
or tripartite, more or less undulate or curled, the points re¬ 
flexed ; lobes spreading, or more or less reflexed, and toothed 
with very large bluntish teeth. Petioles flattened on the up¬ 
per side and convex on the lower, widened at the base. Sti¬ 
pules ovate, acute, sometimes toothed, fringed. Peduncles 
cvlindrical, swollen at the base, several flowered. Involucre 
of 6 broadly lanceolate, acute bractes. Pedicles scarcely as 
long as the bractes. Calyon 5-cleft, upper segment broad¬ 
est, erect, broadly lanceolate, acute, concave inwards, and 
keeled at the back, the others unequal in size, lanceolate, 
acute, more slightly keeled, and the points reflexed. Necta¬ 
riferous tube about double the length of the calyx, broadly 
flattened and furrowed on each side, and gibbous at the base. 
Petals 5, of a bright orangy scarlet, the two upper ones 
oblong, very unequal sided, and marked from the base with 
numerous branching lines; strongly 2-nerved at the back, 
the nerves forked; lower petals ligulate, also Q-nerved at 
the back with two fainter nearly obsolete nerves, one on each 
side. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing an¬ 
thers. Style pale-coloured, thinly clothed with spreading 
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