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PELARGONIUM abrotanifolium. 
Southernwood-leaved Stork’s-hill. 
P. abrotanifolium, caule suffruticoso erecto ramoso, foliis 
cinereo-velutinis palmatim 5-sectis, lobis linearibus tri- 
fidis obtusis, pedunculis 2-4-floris, bracteis minimis, 
calycibus subhispidis, petalis superioribus minoribus, 
tubo nectarifero sessili calyce quadruplo longiore. 
Pelargonium abrotanifolium. DC. prodr. 1. p.66l. Jacq. 
schcenb. 2. t. 136. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 688. Pers. 
syn. 2. p. 234. 
Geranium abrotanifolium. Lin.f. suppl. 3Q4<. Cav. diss. 
4. p. 163. t. 122./*. 2. 
Stem suffruticose, erect, branching: branches erect, 
slender, slightly pubescent, generally 2 or 3 forked. Leaves 
white and hoary, slightly pubescent, divided into 5 leaflets 
or segments, which are again divided into 3 to 5 linear 
blunt lobes, channelled on the upper side and rounded on 
the lower. Petioles slender, flat on the upper side and 
rounded on the lower. Stipules 2, very small, scarcely 
perceptible, joined to the base of the petioles. Peduncles 
cylindrical, roughly pubescent, 2 to 4-flowered. Bractes 
4 to 6, very small, lanceolate, acute. Calyx 5 cleft, lance¬ 
olate, acute, hairy or bearded with long spreading white 
hairs; upper one broadest, erect, the others reflexed. Nec¬ 
tariferous tube sessile, very long, flattened on both sides, 
pubescent, about 4 times longer than the calyx. Petals 5, 
linearly spathulate, the 2 upper ones shortest and narrow¬ 
est, erect or very slightly reflexed, imbricate or lapping 
over each other, white with a pale purple spot at the bend, 
and some very narrow linear lines below it: lower petals 
larger, and distinctly spreading. Filaments 10, slightly 
