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PELARGONIUM Bluntianum. 
Miss Blunt’s Stork’s-bill. 
V. Bluntianum, villoso-pilosus, foliis cordatis 7-9-lobis 
undulatis rigide dentatis ciliatis apice reflexis, sti- 
pulis ovatis acutis subdentatis, umbellis plurifloris, 
tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali, stylo ad medium 
hirsute. 
Stem frutescent, erect, thickly clothed with spread¬ 
ing villous white hairs, as is every other part of the plant 
except the corolla. Leaves cordate at the base, 7 to 9- 
lobed, very much undulate, generally acute, the point 
and some of the lobes more or less reflexed, toothed 
with numerous broadish, rigid teeth, terminated with 
brown points, fringed at the margins, underneath very 
strongly nerved. Petioles flattened a little on the upper 
side and rounded below, dilated a little at the base. 
Stipules ovate, acute, generally toothed. Peduncles cy¬ 
lindrical, a little swollen at the base. Umbels 5 or 6- 
flowered. Involucre of 6 oblongly lanceolate, acute, 
fringed bractes. Pedicles about the length of the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft, of a purplish brown; the segments lan¬ 
ceolate, acute, keeled, and fringed, the upper one 
broadest, erect, the others spreading, or more or less 
reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of the 
calyx, much flattened on both sides, and gibbous at 
the base, tinged more or less with purple. Petals 5; 
the two upper ones obovate, unequal sided, of a pur¬ 
plish crimson, strongly veined at the back, with nume¬ 
rous black lines on the inside from the base to above 
half way up, that branch in all directions: lower petals 
oblong, of rather a lighter colour, also strongly four- 
veined at the back. Filaments 10, connected at the 
