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PELARGONIUM Leghkeck®. 
Mrs. Legh Keck's Stork's-bilL 
P. Leghkeckce , caule fruticoso subcarnoso, foliis cordatis 
5-7-lobis undulatis rotundato-obtusis obtuse dentatis 
utrinque molli-pubescentibus, umbellis subsexfloris pa- 
niculatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce du~ 
plo longiore. 
Stem frutescent, thick and succulent, not much branch¬ 
ed : branches succulent, thickly clothed with soft spreading 
hairs and short soft down underneath. Leaves cordate, 
bluntly rounded, very much undulate, 5 to 7-lobed, the 
lobes rounded, and toothed with numerous large blunt teeth, 
clothed with a soft pubescence on both sides, the margins 
fringed. Petioles flattened on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, widened at the base and point, thickly clothed 
with soft spreading hairs and short down underneath, as 
are the peduncles, calyx, and nectariferous tube. Stipules 
broad at the base, ovate, acute, fringed. Umbels generally 
6-flowered, paniculately branched. Peduncles cylindrical. 
Involucre of 6 or 7 lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes. Pe- 
dicles about the length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the 
segments lanceolate, acute, the upper one broadest, slightly 
recurved at the point, the others recurved from about the 
middle. Nectariferous tube about double the length of 
the calyx, flattened on both sides, and gibbous at the base. 
Petals 5, the two upper ones cuneately obovate, unequal 
sided, Q-nerved, scarlet shaded with purple, and a faint vel- 
vetty spot in the centre, below which are numerous dark 
lines branching all over the petals: lower petals broadly 
ligulate, also 2-nerved. Filaments 10, connected at the 
base, 7 bearing anthers. Style purple, hairy more than 
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