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CICONIUM Bentinckianum. 
Bentinck Ciconium. 
C. Bentinckianum, caule subcarnoso ramoso, foliis rotun- 
dato-reniformibus breviter et obtusissime 5-7-lobis ob¬ 
solete crenatis utrinque mollissime velutinis, stipulis la- 
to-cordatis acutis, umbellis multifloris, petalis superiori- 
bus paulo minoribus, tubo nectarifero calyce subqua- 
druplo longiore. 
•,onium Bentinckianum. Swt. hort. brit.p . 85. n. 20. 
Pelargonium Bentinckianum. DC.prodr. l.p. 664. n. 162. 
Geranium crenatum, var. mollifoliata. Andrews' geran. 
c. ic. 
Stem shrubby, succulent, branching; branches 'thickly 
clothed with spreading unequal white hairs, which are 
slightly bent downwards. Leaves roundly kidney-shaped, 
shortly 5 or 7-lobed, the lobes bluntly rounded, crenulate, 
the notches very shallow, thickly clothed on both sides with 
short soft white hairs, which gives a glossy and velvetty ap¬ 
pearance when viewed towards the light, very soft to the 
touch, but the leaves altogether thicker, and the hairs on 
them much longer than in C .fulgens, a nearly related 
plant. Petioles a little flattened on the upper side and 
rounded on the lower, very thickly clothed with spreading 
white hairs, the smaller ones inclining downwards, the lon¬ 
ger ones spreading horizontally. Stipules broadly cordate, 
acute, hairy, and fringed. Peduncles very long, cylindrical, 
clothed with very unequal spreading hairs. Umbels many- 
flowered. Involucre of numerous very unequal deciduous 
bractes, some of them broadly cordate, others lanceolate, 
acute. Pedicles about the length of the bractes. Calyx 
5-cleft, segments short, lanceolate^ acute, spreading. Nee- 
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