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PELARGONIUM translucens. 
Transparent Stork’s-bill. 
P. translucens , foliis cordatis septemlobis undulatis hirsu- 
tis : lobis oblatis rotundato-obtusis insequaliter dentatis, 
stipulis ovatis acutis subdentatis ciliatis, umbellis pluri- 
floris, petalis cuneatis, tubo nectarifero calyce reflexo 
par am longiore. 
Pelargonium translucens. Hortulanwum. 
A strong erect frutescent plant, rather succulent: the 
branches thickly clothed with spreading villous hairs. 
Leaves large, about 4 inches long, and nearly 5 broad, 
cordate at the base, generally 7-lobed, undulate, hairy on 
both sides, and toothed with numerous short broad unequal 
teeth, underneath strongly nerved, the nerves much bran¬ 
ched, upper side of a dark green, paler underneath: lobes 
broad and rounded, generally overlapping. Petioles fur¬ 
rowed and flattened on the upper side and convex on the 
lower, thickly clothed with spreading villous unequal hairs, 
as are the peduncles, bractes, and calyx. Stipules ovate 
or broadly lanceolate, taper-pointed, sometimes toothed, 
broad at the base, villous, and fringed. Peduncles cylin¬ 
drical, 5 to 7-flowered. Involucre of from 6 to 9 lanceo¬ 
late, acute bractes, joined in sets at the base. Pedicles 
scarcely so long as the bractes. Calyoc 5-cleft, the segments 
long, lanceolate, acute, the upper one longest, erect; the 
others all reflexed or revolute. Nectariferous tube a little 
longer than the calyx, flattened on both sides, and gibbous 
at the base. Petals 5, of a light orangy scarlet, the two up¬ 
per ones about double the size of the others, obovately 
wedge-shaped, unequal-sided, stained with purple and trans- 
