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PELARGONIUM eratinum. 
Lovely Stork’’s-bill. 
P. eratinum , caule suffruticoso, foliis cordatis acutis sub- 
trifidis concavis utrinque pubescentibus: segmentis 
lobatis obtuse insequaliter dentatis, stipulis ovato- 
lanceolatis acutis, umbellis 4-5-floris: petalis supe- 
rioribus oblongo-obovatis: inferioribus ligulatis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce subaequali. 
Stem short, suffruticose, much crowded with leaves, 
thickly clothed with villous hairs, and short down un¬ 
derneath : branches spreading, rather fiexuose. Leaves 
cordate, acute, deeply 3-parted, concave, keeled below, 
pubescent on both sides, underneath strongly nerved, 
the nerves much branched; segments spreading, un¬ 
equally lobed, and toothed with blunt teeth that are 
very unequal in size, some large and others very small. 
Petioles flattened a little on the upper side, and rounded 
below, a little thickened at the base, clothed with 
spreading hairs, and soft down underneath. Stipules 
ovate or ovately lanceolate, acute, fringed with short 
hairs. Peduncles axillary or opposite to a leaf, cylindri¬ 
cal, downy, and clothed with spreading hairs. Umbels 
4 or 5-flowered. Lnvolucre of 6 lanceolate, acute, con¬ 
cave, villous, fringed bractes. Pedicles a little longer 
than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, tinged with purple* 
thickly clothed with short villous hairs: upper segment 
broadest, erect, ovately lanceolate, keeled, the margins 
tinged with red: the others lanceolate, acute, reflexed 
at the points, fringed. Nectariferous tube about the 
length of the calyx, gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the 
two upper ones oblongly obovate, inclining to cuneate, 
of a bright orangy scarlet, with a dark velvetty patch 
