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PELARGONIUM commixtum. 
Mingled Stork’s-bill. 
P. commixtum, caule fruticoso ramosissimo: ramis bre- 
yibus villoso-pilosis, foliis aggregatis cordatis trilob is 
obtuse lobatis rigide dentatis utrinque hirsutis, sti- 
pulis ovatis acuminatis, pedunculis 2-3-floris, tubo 
nectarifero brevissimo calyce triplo breviore, stylo 
hirsuto. 
Stem frutescent, very much branched: branches short 
and crowded, thickly clothed with leaves, and with nu¬ 
merous long, spreading, woolly hairs; the petioles, pe¬ 
duncles, bractes, and calyx, are thickly covered with 
the same sort of hairs. Leaves small, numerous, crowd¬ 
ed, cordate, 3-lobed, clothed with short hairs on both 
sides; lobes flat, and bluntly rounded, toothed with 
numerous short rigid horny teeth. Petioles short, flat¬ 
tened a little on the upper side, and convex below, di¬ 
lated a little at the base. Stipules ovate, taper-pointed, 
villous, and fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, 2 or 3-flow- 
ered. Involucre of 6 ovately lanceolate, taper-pointed 
bractes. Pedicles about the length of, or scarcely so 
long as the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, of a brown purple ; 
the segments lanceolate, taper-pointed; the upper one 
broadest, erect; the others more or less reflexed. Nec¬ 
tariferous tube very short, three times shorter than the 
calyx, also of a brown purple. Petals 5 ; the two upper 
ones obovate, very unequal-sided, dark rosy red, with 
a dark velvetty spot in the centre, below which are 
some dark short lines, scarcely branched: lower petals 
narrowly obovate or spatulate, of a pale rose colour. 
Filaments 10 , connected at the base, 7 bearing anthers. 
