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PELARGONIUM inelancholicuin. 
Dark-edged Stork; s-bill. 
P. melancholicum, foliis cordatis quinquelobis undulatis 
margine subreflexis acute cartilagineo-dentatis utrin- 
que viHosis, stipulis ovatis, umbellis paucifloris, petalis 
superioribus margine incurvis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
paulo longiore, stylo glaberrimo. 
Stem woody, more or less bent, thickly clothed with 
spreading white hairs; branches spreading, villosely 
hairy, as is every other part of the plant, except the 
corolla. Leaves cordate, rounded at the points, very 
much undulate, points and margins generally reflexed; 
unequally toothed with numerous rigid, sharp, horny, 
brown teeth: lower ones 5 or 7-lobed, and more cor¬ 
date at the base: upper ones generally 3-lobed, more 
acute, the margins bent inwards, scarcely cordate, and 
less undulate. Petioles slender, slightly flattened on the 
upper side and convex on the lower. Stipules ovate, 
acute, entire, fringed with long white hairs, joined to 
the base of the petioles. Umbels two or three-flowered. 
Peduncles cylindrical, a little bent. Bractes 4 to 6, 
lanceolate, taper-pointed, a little longer than the pedi¬ 
cles. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute, 
the upper one broadest, erect, the others more or less 
reflexed. Nectariferous tube a little longer than the 
calyx, sometimes half as long again, flattened and keel¬ 
ed on each side and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, of 
a bright orangy scarlet, tinged with dark purple ; the 
two upper ones narrowly obovate, the margins curved 
inwards, marked with several 4 ar k branched veins: 
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