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PELARGONIUM pallidulum. 
Pale Pink-coloured Stork's-bill. 
P. pallidulum, foliis reniformibus subquinquelobis un- 
dulatis argute insequaliter dentatis leviter pilosis, 
stipulis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subdentatis, 
umbellis quadrifloris, tubo nectarifero calyce paulo 
longiore, stylo glabro aut basi subhirsuto. 
Stem stout, frutescent, branched: branches of a 
glossy green, clothed with unequal, spreading, white 
hairs. Leaves kidney-form, broader than long, shal¬ 
lowly 5-lobed, undulate, toothed with numerous sharp 
rigid unequal teeth, of a glossy appearance, but thinly 
clothed with hairs on both sides. Petioles flattened, and 
slightly furrowed on the upper side, convex on the lower, 
thickly clothed with unequal hairs. Stipules variable, 
ovate, or oblongly lanceolate, tapering to a long slender 
point, sometimes toothed, villous, and fringed. Umbels 
generally four-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, villosely 
hairy. Involucre of 6 short, ovate, acute, villous bractes, 
closely imbricated over each other. Pedicles much longer 
than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceo¬ 
late, acute, villosely hairy, all reflexed when the flower 
is expanded. Nectariferous tube a little longer than the 
calyx, gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two upper 
ones broadly obovate, unequal at the base, of a pale 
rosy pink, marked with a few purple stripes from the 
centre to the base; lower ones narrower, obovately 
oblong, of a paler colour, marked with several pale 
branching veins. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 
7 bearing anthers. Style of a reddish purple, smooth, 
or bearing a few hairs near the base. Stigmas 5, bright 
purple, revolute at the points. 
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