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PELARGONIUM crisp uni. 
Curled-leaved Stork 9 s-bill. 
P. crispum, foliis distichis subrotundo-carnosis basi subcu- 
neatis trifidis undulato-plicatis scabris dentatis, pedun- 
culis subbifloris, tubo nectarifero calycis longitudine. 
D C. prodr . 1. p. 677 . 
Pelargonium crispum. M Merit. ger. t. 33. Willden. sp. 
pi. 3. p. 682. Pers. syn. 2. p.%33. DC. prodr. 1. 
p. 677. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 180. 
Geranium crispum. Linn. mant. %57. Cavan, diss. 4. 
t. 109./. 2. 
Stem shrubby at the base, very much branched: bran¬ 
ches upright, densely clothed with very short white hairs. 
Leaves lemon scented, or inclining to the scent of balm, 
very small, numerous, crowded, distichously spreading, 
broader than long, rather fleshy, cuneate or truncate at the 
base, trifid, very much curled at the margin, and toothed 
with short horny teeth, very rough, the roughness occa¬ 
sioned by small rigid hairs, which are numerous on both 
sides: middle segment largest, and 3-lobed, the side ones 
2- lobed: lobes acute, the points very slightly reflexed. Pe¬ 
tioles short, flattened on the upper side, and convex on the 
lower, thickly clothed with short hairs. Stipules cordately 
ovate, acute, fringed with short rigid hairs. Peduncles 2 to 
3- flowered, short, cylindrical, thickly clothed with short but 
unequal hairs. Involucre of 6 lanceolately ovate, acute, 
fringed bractes, with purple margins. Pedicles scarcely so 
long as the bractes. Calyon 5-cleft, the segments lanceo¬ 
late, acute, spreading, or the lower ones sometimes reflex¬ 
ed a little, tinged with purple, very rough, being thickly 
