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PELARGONIUM clarum. 
Clear-flowered Stork's-bill. 
P. clarum, villosum, foliis cordatis 5-7-lobis undulatis in- 
aequaliter argute dentatis utrinque pilosis, stipulis lan- 
qeolatis acutis subdentatis, umbellis plurifloris, petalis 
crenatis, tubo nectarifero calyce subduplo breviore. 
Stem frutescent, branching: branches erect or slightly 
spreading, thickly clothed with spreading unequal villous 
hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cor¬ 
date, broader than long, rather succulent, 5 or 7-lobed, much 
undulate, deeply toothed with large unequal horny teeth, 
clothed with soft hairs on both sides, strongly nerved under¬ 
neath, the nerves a little branched. Petioles a little flatten¬ 
ed on the upper side and rounded on the lower, widened at 
the base. Stipules broadly lanceolate, acute, generally tooth¬ 
ed, villous, and fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, elongated. 
Umbels several-flowered. Involucre of 6 or 7 unequal brac- 
tes, some lanceolate, others ovate, acute, villous. Pedicles 
long and slender, villosely hairy. Calyx 5-cleft; laciniee 
very unequal, outer ones broadest, broadly lanceolate, acute, 
inner ones narrower and taper-pointed. Nectariferous tube 
unequal in length, generally about half the length of the 
calyx, much flattened on both sides, and gibbous at the 
base. Petals 5, of a clear white, slightly notched at the 
ends: the two upper ones largest, obovate, unequal sided,; 
with a bright purple patch in the centre, below which are 
several purple lines, some of them a little branched : lower 
ones oblong, rounded at the points. Filaments 10 , connect¬ 
ed at the base, 7 only bearing anthers. Style purple, with a 
few spreading hairs near the base, the upper part smooth. 
Stiy?nas 5, purple, spreading, the points reflexed. 
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