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PELARGONIUM pneclarum. 
Clear-coloured, Stork’s-bill. 
P. prceclarum, ramis villoso-pilosis, foliis cordato-ova- 
tis acutis sublobatis serrato-dentatis margine undu- 
latis utrinque molliter hirsutis, stipulis ovatis acutis, 
umbellis subquadrifloris, petalis omnibus obovatis, 
pedicellis bracteis longioribus, tubo nectarifero calyce 
villoso subaequali, stylo pilosissimo. 
Stem frutescent, erect, much branched: branches 
densely clothed with soft villous hairs, as are the pe¬ 
tioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves rather small, 
cordately ovate, acute, more or less lobed with short 
lobes, densely clothed with short soft hairs on both sides, 
and serrately toothed with numerous small teeth, the 
margins undulate, underneath strongly nerved. Petioles 
flattened on the upper side and convex on the lower. 
Stipules ovate, acute, villous. Umbels 3 or 4-flowered. 
Peduncles cylindrical. Involucre of 6 or 7 lanceolate 
acute villous bractes. Pedicles longer than the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
keeled ; the upper one rather largest, erect; the others 
spreading, or slightly reflexed. Nectariferous tube about 
the length of or scarcely so long as the calyx, flattened 
on each side, and somewhat gibbous at the base. Petals 
all obovate, of a clear white; the two upper ones largest, 
unequal-sided a little, somewhat plaited, the margins 
rather uneven, marked with a large bright dark purple 
patch in the centre, from the lower part of which branch 
some short bright purple lines; lower petals pure white. 
