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PELARGONIUM tinctum. 
Stained Stork's-bill. 
P. tinctum, foliis cordatis acutis 5-7-lobis acute dentatis 
utrinque hirsutis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis, umbel- 
lis plurifloris, petalis omnibus obovatis basi imbri- 
catis, tubo nectarifero calyce subsequali. 
Dennis’s Rival Geranium. Hortulanorum. 
Stem frutescent, much branched: branches stout, 
spreading, thickly clothed with long white soft hairs. 
Leaves cordate, acute, broader than long, generally 7- 
lobed, but some of the upper ones only 5-lobed, toothed 
with numerous small, sharp, rigid teeth; hairy on both 
sides, a little hollow at the base, the points in general 
slightly reflexed: lobes short, divaricately spreading. 
Petioles flattened a little on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, thickened at the base, thickly clothed 
with spreading villous hairs, as are the peduncles, 
bractes, calyx,"and nectariferous tube. Stipules ovate, 
taper-pointed, fringed. Umbels several-flowered. Pe¬ 
duncles cylindrical, more or less bent, thickened at the 
base. Involucre of 6 or 7 lanceolate acute fringed bractes. 
Pedicles long and slender, longer than the nectariferous 
tube. Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, taper- 
pointed, erect or spreading, some of them sometimes 
reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of the ca¬ 
lyx, sometimes scarcely so long, flattened on each side, 
slightly gibbous at the base. Petals 5; the two upper 
ones roundly obovate, very unequal sided, pale blush, 
with a dark purple patch in the centre that extends 
nearly all over the petals, below which are numerous 
dark purple lines, more or less branched: lower petals 
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