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PELARGONIUM nodosum. 
Knotted-stalked Stork’s-bill. 
P. nodosum, caule carnoso flexuoso nodoso, foliis divisis 
glabriusculis subpilosis : inferioribus pinnatifidis la- 
ciniatisque; superioribus pinnatis; segmentis pinna- 
tifido-laciniatis subdentatis, scapo villoso elongato 
ramoso, umbellis multifloris, petalis reflexis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce 2-3-plo longiore, stylo hirsuto. 
Stem rather short, frutescent, succulent, flexuose, 
knotted from whence the leaves proceed, clothed with 
a brown scaly bark ; the flower-stem swollen at the 
base, elongated, branching into numerous peduncles, 
leafy below, but naked upwards, thickly clothed with 
spreading villous hairs, which are in the greatest quan¬ 
tity on the lower part. Leaves variable, of a pale green, 
inclining to glaucous, more or less divided, spreading, 
of a smooth appearance, but clothed with short hairs on 
both sides; lower ones pinnatifid, or more orless jagged; 
the segments broader, and less divided than the upper 
ones: upper ones pinnate; the segments pinnatifid or 
deeply jagged, generally linear, blunt-pointed, entire, 
or toothed with small teeth, the nerves underneath clothed 
with spreading hairs. Petioles long and rather slender, 
nearly cylindrical, thickened at the base, more or less 
clothed with long spreading hairs; the rachis between 
the leaflets slightly winged. Stipules short, very broad 
at the base, but terminated in rather an acute point, 
turning brown, and remaining a long time persistent. 
Peduncles long, cylindrical, very much thickened at the 
base, clothed with long spreading villous hairs. Umbels _ 
many-flowered, the flowers spreading, generally nod¬ 
ding. Involucre of numerous lanceolate, bluntish, fringed 
bractes. Pedicles about the length of the bractes, clothed 
with a short pubescence. Calyon 5-cleft; upper segment 
