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CICONIUM crenatum. 
Scolloped-leaved Ciconium. 
C. crenatum , caule fruticoso subcarnoso, foliis lato-reni- 
formibus undulatis obsolete lobatis grosse crenatis utrin- 
que molli-pubescentibus, stipulis magnis oblongo-ova- 
tis acutis undulatis marginibus reflexis, umbellis multi- 
floris, braeteis numerosis variabilis, petalis cuneatis su- 
perioribus duplominoribus, tubo nectarifero brevi pe- 
dicellato calyce reflexo duplo longiore. 
Ciconium crenatum. Swt. Jiort. hr it. p. 85. n. 18. Cclv. 
catal. edit. 2. p.,%\. edit. 3. p. 25. col. 2. 
Geranium crenatum. Andrews's Geraniums, c. ic. 
Stem shrubby, thick, and succulent; branches rather 
flexuose and spreading, thickly clothed with short white 
hairs, which are generally bent downwards. Leaves kid¬ 
ney-shaped, nearly twice as broad as long, slightly and un¬ 
equally lobed, more or less undulate, and crenated with 
broad shallow unequal teeth, very soft and flaccid, thickly 
clothed with short woolly hairs on the upper side; under¬ 
neath smoother, but very hairy on the nerves: nerves un¬ 
derneath prominent, but much branched. Petioles nearly 
cylindrical, or slightly flattened on the upper side, swollen 
at the base, thickly clothed with short reflexed hairs, as are 
the peduncles also. Stipules large, ovate or oblong, widest 
at the base, taper-pointed, very much undulate, the margins 
rolled backwards. Peduncles very long, axillary, or oppo¬ 
site to a leaf, stout, cylindrical, swollen at the base. Um¬ 
bels many-flowered, the flowers crowded in a close head. 
Involucre of numerous unequal hairy bractes, outer ones 
large and ovate, acute, concave; inner ones narrow, oblong 
or lanceolate, fringed. Pedicles shorter than the bractes. 
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