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PELARGONIUM pentastictum. 
Five-marked Stork’s-bill. 
P. pentastictum, radice ramoso-tuberoso, caule suflruti- 
coso carnoso subnodoso adscendente, foliis lobatis 
ternatis pinnatifidisve inaequaliter dentatis utrinque 
pilosis subtus subtomentosis, stipulis ovatis, umbel- 
lis subpaniculatis multifloris, petalis ligulatis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce obtuso 2-3-plo longiore. 
Pelargonium lobatum var, pictum. FLortulanorum. 
Root large, tuberous, branching out into numerous 
other tubers, of various forms and sizes. Stem short, 
somewhat succulent, and more or less knotted at the 
joints, branching but little, but generally terminated 
in a large panicle of flowers : young branches very 
hairy, the hairs very unequal in length, numerous 
small short ones being intermixed with the fewer long 
ones. Leaves very variable, oblongly ovate, some only 
lobed, others ternate or pinnatifid, some of the upper 
ones sometimes nearly bipinnatifid, a little undulate, 
hairy on both sides, and thinly tomentose underneath : 
lobes and leaflets divaricately spreading, more or less 
again lobed, and toothed with short sharp unequal 
teeth. Petioles stout, thickened at the base, tomentosely 
hairy Stipules ovate, acute, or some of the upper ones 
obtuse. Flower-stems branched. Peduncles thickly clo¬ 
thed with unequal hairs. Umbels many-flowered. Invo¬ 
lucre of several narrow, acute, very hairy bractes. Pe¬ 
dicles very short, or scarcely any. Calyx 5-cleft, densely 
hairy: the segments blunt, concave inwards, the upper 
one largest, erect; the others more or less reflexed. 
Nectariferous tube variable in length, two or three times 
longer than the calyx, thickly clothed with short hairs. 
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