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PELARGONIUM Clintonise. 
Dutchess of Newcastle's StorJc's-bill. 
P. Clintonice, caule fruticoso ramoso: ramis compactis 
pilosis nitidis, foliis cordatis subquinquelobis undulatis 
nitidis insequaliter argute cartilagineo-dentatis, umbel- 
lis plurifloris, petalis omnibus lato-obovatis, laciniis ca- 
lycinis lanceolatis aeuminatis. 
Stem fruticose, rather succulent, compact, forming a 
snug bushy plant: branches short, thickly clothed with 
leaves, glossy, but clothed with unequal hairs. Leaves cor¬ 
date, cucullate or hollow, slightly 5-lobed, very much un¬ 
dulate, lower ones rounded, the upper ones acute, deeply 
toothed with large sharp unequal horny teeth, of a glossy 
green on both sides, slightly hairy. Petioles flattened and 
furrowed on the upper side, and convex on the lower, wi¬ 
dened at the base, thickly clothed with spreading unequal 
hairs. Stipules broadly lanceolate, taper-pointed, and frin¬ 
ged. Peduncles cylindrical, hairy. Umbels several-flower¬ 
ed. Involucrum of 6 or 7 short concave bractes, which are 
ovate or lanceolate, scarcely acute, but terminated by a 
mucrone, and fringed. Pedicles more than double the 
length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments very 
long, narrowly lanceolate, taper-pointed, spreading, but not 
reflexed, hairy, and the margins fringed. Nectariferous 
tube about the length of or scarcely so long as the calyx, 
much flattened, and clothed with short hairs. Petals 5, all 
obovate, and slightly crenulate; the two upper ones very 
broad and very unequal sided, of a purplish red, with a 
faint velvetty patch in the centre, connected to some strong 
dark purple lines, below which are several lighter purple 
