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PELARGONIUM adventitium. 
A dventitious Stork's- bill. 
P. adventitium, foliis cordato-reniformibus obtusis 5-7- 
lobis glabris undulatis inaequaliter rigide dentatis, 
stipulis ovatis breviter acuminatis, umbellis pluri- 
floris, tubo nectarifero calyce multo breviore, stylo 
ad medium hirsuto. 
Stem frutescent, erect, branching : branches thickly 
clothed with short hairs. Leaves cordately reniforin, 
rounded at the ends, shallowly 5 to 7-lobed, more or 
less undulate, toothed with numerous sharp rigid teeth, 
that vary considerably in size, fringed with short hairs 
round the margins, and thinly clothed with short hairs 
on both sides, strongly nerved underneath, the nerves 
much branched, and densely hairy. Petioles flattened 
on the upper side and rounded below, villosely hairy. 
Stipules ovate, tapering to a short slender point, villous 
and fringed. Umbels about 6-flowered. Peduncles cylin¬ 
drical, clothed with spreading villous hairs, that are very 
unequal in length. Involucre of 6 or 7 oblong, acute, vil¬ 
lous bractes. Pedicles much longer than the bractes in 
general, but sometimes about the same length. Calyx 
5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, acute, keeled, hairy; 
upper one broadest; all erect, or slightly spreading at 
the points. Nectariferous tube in general very short, 
sometimes almost wanting, others again are nearly as 
long as the calyx. Petals 5; the two upper ones obo- 
vate, unequal-sided, of a purple lilac, with a bright 
dark spot in the centre, and numerous dark lines be¬ 
tween it and the base, scarcely branched: lower petals 
narrower, spathulate, attenuated to the base, notched 
