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PELARGONIUM Russellianura. 
Russell's Stork's-bill. 
P. Russellianum, foliis cordatis acutis quinquelobis undu- 
latis inaequaliter cartilagineo-dentatis molliter pubes- 
centibus, stipulis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis ciliatis, 
umbellis plurifloris, petalis obovatis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce parum longiore. 
Stem frutescent, stiff, and branched, making a short 
bushy plant: branches stout, erect or slightly spreading, 
thickly clothed with unequal villous hairs, as are the peti¬ 
oles, peduncles, and nectariferous tube. Leaves cordate, 
acute, 5-lobed, very much undulate, and toothed with nu¬ 
merous large rigid teeth, which are unequal in size, and ter¬ 
minated in hard cartilaginous points. Petioles broad, and 
furrowed on the upper side, and rounded on the lower, wi¬ 
dened at the base. Stipules long, broadly lanceolate, broad 
at the base, and terminated in a long taper point, some¬ 
times toothed, ciliate. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less 
bent. Umbels five to seven-flowered. Involucre of 6 or 7 
lanceolate, acute, villous bractes. Pedicles scarcely as long 
as the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, ta¬ 
per-pointed, upper one largest, erect, keeled, the others 
narrower, and reflexed. Petals 5 , all obovate, the two up¬ 
per ones much broadest, of a bright scarlet, marked with 
numerous branching black lines, but no spot; lower petals 
rather lighter, purplish at the base, 5-nerved at the back, 
the nerves branched. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 
bearing anthers, which in our specimens were all sterile. 
Style purple, smooth, or a few straggling hairs near the 
base. Stigmas 5, dark purple, the points re volute. 
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