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PELARGONIUM nutans. 
Nodding-flowered Stork’s-bill. 
P. nutans, caule suffrutescente ramoso, foliis cordatis 
palmatim 7-lobis undulatis obtuse denticulatis: 
margine subincurvis, stipulis lanceolatis acuminatis, 
umbellis nutantibus 3-5-floris, petalis cuneiformi- 
bus, tubo nectarifero calyce subsequali, stylo sub- 
hirsuto. 
Stem suffrutescent, much branched: branches spread¬ 
ing, thickly clothed with short woolly hairs. Leaves 
cordate, scarcely acute, palmately 7-lobed, the upper 
ones only 5-lobed, very much undulate, and a little 
curled at the margins, which bend a little inwards, 
somewhat hollow on the upper side, and thinly toothed 
with bluntish teeth, hairy on both sides: lobes spread¬ 
ing, those on the lower leaves oblong, bluntish; the 
upper ones narrower and acute, and toothed with sharper 
teeth. Petioles flattened a little on the upper side, and 
convex below, villosely hairy. Stipules lanceolate, ta¬ 
pering to a long slender point, villous. Peduncles 3 to 
5-flowered, the flowers nodding, of a brilliant scarlet. 
Involucre of 6 narrow lanceolate, taper-pointed, keeled 
bractes. Pedicles shorter than the bractes. Calyx 5- 
cleft, densely clothed with silky hairs: the segments 
lanceolate, acute, keeled, spreading when the flower is 
expanded. Nectariferous tube about the length of the 
calyx, sometimes scarcely so long. Petals 5, wedge- 
shaped, much attenuated towards the base, distinctly 
spreading: the upper ones broadest, truncate or very 
slightly crenulate at the ends, marked in the centre 
with a deep velvetty spot, below which are a few short 
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