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PELARGONIUM hsemastictum. 
Blood-spotted Stork's-bill. 
P. kcemastictum , foliis cordatis acutis 5-7-lobis undulatis 
inaequaliter dentatis glabris margine ciliatis basi conca- 
vis apice subrecurvis, stipulis oblongo-lanceolatis acu- 
minatis, umbellis plurifloris, petalis superioribus condu- 
plicatis, tubo nectarifero calyce sesquilongiore. 
Stem frutescent, branching: branches more or less 
flexuose, smooth and glossy, very thinly hairy. Leaves 
cordate, acute, rigid, 5 to 7-lobed, undulate and curved in¬ 
wards, toothed with numerous broad, sharp, rigid, very 
unequal teeth, smooth, or slightly hairy on the nerves un¬ 
derneath, fringed round the edges, hollow or concave at 
the base, the points more or less recurved, of a palish green 
colour. Petioles slightly flattened on the upper side and 
rounded on the lower, smooth, or clothed with a few short 
hairs. Stipules oblongly lanceolate, taper-pointed, fringed. 
Umbels several-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, smooth 
or but thinly clothed with short hairs. Involucre of several 
bractes, very unequal in size, some ovate, others lanceolate, 
acute, fringed. Pedicles 3 times the length of the bractes, 
slightly hairy. Calyoc 5-cleft, hairy; upper segment erect, 
ovate, acute, keeled at the back: the others lanceolate, taper- 
pointed, veined, the points reflexed. Nectariferous tube 
about half as long again as the calyx, flattened but keeled on 
both sides, clothed with short hairs. Petals 5 ; the two 
upper ones obovate, very unequal-sided, conduplicate or 
more or less folded towards the base, of a bright blush, with 
a bright blood-coloured spot in the centre, and several crim¬ 
son lines below it, a little branched: lower petals obovate, 
crenulate at the edges, strongly veined underneath, white or 
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