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PELARGONIUM alt uui. 
Tall upright Stork's-bill. 
P. ahum, caule erecto ramoso altissimo, foliis cordatis 
undulatis subtrifidis: segmentis obtusis lobatis lato- 
dentatis utrinque hirsutis, stipulis ovatis acumina- 
tis eiliatis, umbellis 4-5-floris, tubo nectarifero ca- 
lyce duplo longiore. 
Stem frutescent, erect, growing to a great height, and 
producing several upright elongated branches: branches 
thickly clothed with unequal soft spreading woolly 
hairs. Leaves deeply 3-parted, cordate at the base, un¬ 
dulate, hollow on the upper side, and toothed with nu¬ 
merous broad flat teeth, that are scarcely acute, hairy 
on both sides, strongly nerved underneath, the nerves 
branched; lower leaves not so deeply divided as,the 
upper ones, but more lobed; lower segments generally 
2-lobed, the terminal one 3 to 5-lobed ; the lobes ob¬ 
tuse, of a bright but light green. Petioles a little flat¬ 
tened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, wi¬ 
dened a little at the base, clothed with soft spreading- 
hairs. Stipules broadly ovate, taper-pointed, hairy and 
fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, thickly clothed with soft 
spreading unequal hairs, as are the bractes, pedicles, 
calyx, and nectariferous tube. Umbels generally 4 or 5- 
flowered. Involucre of 6 lanceolate acute fringed villous 
bractes. Pedicles longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, 
the segments lanceolate, scarcely acute, the upper one 
broadest, erect, concave, the others spreading, or their 
points slightly reflexed. Nectariferous tube generally 
twice the length of the calyx, sometimes only half as 
long again. Petals 5, the two upper ones broadest, cu- 
neate, dark red, tinged with purple, and marked with 
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