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PELARGONIUM saturatum. 
Saturated Stork’s-bill. 
P. saturatum , foliis undulatis acutis insequaliter rigide 
dentatis basi truncatis cuneatisve apice lobisque 
subreflexis: inferioribus quinquelobis : superioribus 
trilobis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis undulatis longe 
acuminatis, umbellis multifioris, tubo nectarifero ca- 
lyce subaequali. 
Stem frutescent, branching: branches spreading, thick¬ 
ly clothed with unequal spreading villous hairs, as are 
the petioles, peduncles, calyx, and nectariferous tube. 
Leaves broader than long, very much undulate, acute, 
sharply toothed with very unequal rigid teeth, very hairy 
on both sides, strongly three-nerved from the base, the 
nerves much branched: lower ones 5-lobed, truncate at 
the base, the lobes and points a little reflexed: upper 
ones 3-lobed, deeper and sharper toothed, cuneate at 
the base. Petioles flattened a little on the upper side 
and rounded on the lower, widened and thickened at the 
base. Stipules broadly or ovately lanceolate, tapering to 
a long slender point, very much undulate, villous, and 
fringed. Umbels 6 to 8-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, 
much swollen at the base. Involucre of 6 bractes, gene¬ 
rally connected into 2 sets at the base : bractes lanceo¬ 
late, acute, fringed, tinged with purple. Pedicles about 
the length of, or scarcely so long as the bractes. Calyx 
5-cleft; segments lanceolate, acute, the points reflexed, 
upper one 3-nerved, the others keeled. Nectariferous 
tube variable in length, generally about the length of the 
calyx. Petals 5; the 2 upper ones obovate, unequal 
sided, of a dark scarlet, with a large dark velvetty patch 
in the centre, and numerous dark lines from the base, 
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