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PELARGONIUM picturatum. 
Pictured Stork’s-bill. 
V. picturatum, caule fruticoso ramosissimo: ramisgraci- 
libus erectis, foliis cordatis trilobis ineequaliter acute 
denticulatis utrinque hirsutis: lobis sublobatis, sti- 
pulis lanceolatis acutis, umbellis 3-4-floris, tubo 
nectarifero calyce subsequali. 
Stem frutescent, tall and erect, much branched : 
branches slender, erect, thickly clothed with short hairs 
and some long spreading ones intermixed. Leaves cor¬ 
date, three-lobed, scarcely acute, broader than long, 
slightly undulate, and toothed with innumerable small 
teeth, that are acute and very unequal in size, clothed 
with short hairs on both sides, underneath many-nerved, 
the nerves much branched : lobes sometimes slightly 
lobed, the terminal one largest. Petioles flattened on 
the upper side and convex on the lower, a little widened 
at the base, hairy. Stipules lanceolate, acute, fringed. 
Peduncles long and slender, cylindrical. Umbels 3 or 4- 
flowered. Involucre of 6 lanceolate, acute, hairy and 
fringed bractes. Pedicles more than double the length 
of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, 
taper-pointed: upper one erect, the others spreading 
or their points reflexed, very hairy and fringed. Nec¬ 
tariferous tube about the length of the calyx, flattened 
on each side and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two 
upper ones obovate, very unequal sided, white with a 
large dark purple patch in the centre, and numerous 
purple lines that branch into each other and extend all 
over the petals: lower petals oblong, obtuse, white, 
veined with purple lines. Filaments 10, united at the 
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