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CICONIUM glabrifolium. 
Smooth-leaved Ciconium. 
C. glabrifolium, foliis reniformibus 5-7-lobis crenatis supra 
glabris nitidis subtus subpilosis 5-7-nerviis: lobis rotun- 
datis, stipulis ovatis, umbellis multifloris, petalis omni¬ 
bus obovatis venosis, tubo nectarifero calyce triplo lon- 
giore. 
Stem frutescent, very much branched:' branches erect 
or spreading, thickly clothed with short hairs, that are 
slightly reflexed. Leaves succulent, numerous, spreading, 
kidney-shaped, flat, 5 to 7-lobed, crenated with a few deep- 
ish notches, the lobes rounded, of a dark green, smooth and 
glossy on the upper side, but clothed with some short hairs, 
which are not perceptible, except held up to the light: un¬ 
derneath strongly 5 or 7-nerved from the base, the nerves 
branched, and clothed with short hairs. Petioles flattened 
and furrowed on the upper side, and convex on the lower, 
widened at the base, clothed with short reflexed hairs. Sti¬ 
pules ovate, bluntish, but ending in a short point, and ter¬ 
minated with a few long set® or bristle like hairs, the mar¬ 
gins fringed with short hairs. Umbels many-flowered. Pe¬ 
duncles cylindrical, clothed with short reflexed hairs. In¬ 
volucre of 6 broadly ovate bractes, which also terminate in 
a short point, that ends in a long bristle like hair, the 
margins fringed. Pedicles short, scarcely so long as the 
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, thelacini® lanceolate, acute: upper 
one broadest, erect, the others spreading, or slightly reflexed. 
Nectariferous tube about 3 times the length of the calyx, 
dark purple, keeled on each side, and clothed with spread¬ 
ing unequal hairs, that are tipped with small glands. Petals 
b, all obovate, of a bright scarlet, strongly veined with nu¬ 
merous dark branching veins, the 2 upper ones scarcely more 
