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PELARGONIUM Richianum. 
Miss Rich’s Stork’s-bill. 
P. Richianum , foliis cordatis subquinquelobis undulatis ar¬ 
gute cartilagineo-dentatis, stipulis subdentatis, umbellis 
plurifloris, petalis oblongo-obovatissuperioribus ramoso- 
venosis, laciniis calycinis elongato-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce parum breviore. 
Stem frutescent, branching: branches thickly clothed 
with spreading very unequal villous hairs. Leaves cordate, 
some of them rather reniform, undulate, slightly 5-lobed, 
and deeply toothed with numerous long sharp cartilaginous 
teeth, the points of the longest recurved. Petioles flattened 
on the upper side, and convex on the lower, thickly clothed 
with spreading villous hairs, as are the peduncles, Calyx, 
and nectariferous tube. Stipules ovate or oblongly lanceo¬ 
late, taper-pointed, and mostly toothed. Umbels several- 
flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less bent. Invo¬ 
lucre of 6 ovate taper-pointed keeled bractes, their margins 
fringed. Pedicles in our specimen shorter than the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft, the segments very long, lanceolate, tapering 
to a long slender point, fringed, longer than the nectarife¬ 
rous tubes, which are very variable in length, and keeled on 
each side. Petals 5, rather narrow for their length, oblong¬ 
ly obovate; the upper ones broadest, unequal-sided, very 
narrow towards the base, of a pale blush, with a slight pur¬ 
ple patch in the centre, and numerous elegant purple lines, 
very variable in colour, which branch all over the petals: 
lower petals whiter, with a strong purple line from the base, 
more or less branched. Filaments 10 , connected at the 
base, 7 bearing anthers. Style purple, quite smooth. Stig¬ 
mas 5, purple, reflexed. 
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