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PELARGONIUM papyraceum. 
Paper-flowered Stork’s-bill. 
P. papyraceum , caule erecto ramoso, foliis basi cuneatis 
5-7-lobis acute dentatis margine undulatis subtus multi- 
nerviis, stipulis lanceolatis acutis, pedunculis Q-3-floris, 
calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce subsequali. 
Stem frutescent, erect, branched, thickly clothed with 
short hairs: branches short, erect, or but little spreading, 
well clothed with leaves, and covered with short spreading 
white hairs. Leaves cuneate at the base, 5 to 7-lobed, flat 
till within a little space of the edges, which are much undu¬ 
late, thinly clothed with hairs on both sides, the upper side 
rather glossy, of a pale green colour; underneath strongly 
and numerously nerved, the nerves much branched, and 
densely hairy: lobes spreading, acute, and sharply toothed 
with short rigid teeth, the margins fringed. Petioles a little 
flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, wi¬ 
dened a little at the base, thickly clothed with short spread¬ 
ing hairs, as are the peduncles, bractes, calyx, and necta¬ 
riferous tube. Stipules small, lanceolate, broad at the base, 
taper-pointed, and fringed. Peduncles 2 or 3-flowered. 
Involucre of 6 or 7 lanceolate, taper-pointed, fringed brac¬ 
tes. Pedicles nearly 3 times the length of the bractes. Ca¬ 
lyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute, fringed, the 
whole reflexed, or the points of some of them revolute, up¬ 
per one tinged with purple. Nectariferous tube about the 
length of the calyx, flattened on each side, and a little gib¬ 
bous at the base. Petals 5, of a thin texture, paper white; 
the two upper ones broadly obovate, very unequal-sided, 
elegantly marked with a bright purple spot in the centre, 
and several short purple lines below the spot: 3 lower ones 
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