PELARGONIUM lasiocaulon.
Villous-stallced Stork's-bill.
P. lasiocaulon, villosissimum, foliis cordatis acutis sublo-
batis inæqualiter acute dentatis margine undulatis, um-
bellis subpaniculatis multifloris, bracteis lato-ovatis obo-
vatisve, calycibus lanceolatis acuminatis, tubo nectari-
fero calyce parum breviore.
Stem frutescent, branching, thickly clothed with long
spreading soft woolly hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles,
stipules, involucrum, and calyx. Leaves broadly cordate,
acute, slightly lobed, undulate at the margins, and toothed
with numerous shortish sharp teeth, which are very variable
in size, clothed on both sides with short woolly hairs, which
makes it very soft to the touch, strongly and numerously
nerved underneath, the nerves much branched, and furrowed
on the upper side of the leaf. Stipules broad, upper ones
cordately ovate, obtuse or acute,bels sometimes toothed. Umdun
cnleusmerous, in a sort of panicle, many-flowered. Pe
nearly cylindrical, more or less bent. Involucre of
several broad ovate or obovate rounded bractes, terminated
in a short sharp point. Pedicles scarcely so long as the bractes.
Calyon 5-cleft, the segments very long, erect, or slightly
spreading, lanceolate, taper-pointed. Nectariferous tube
scarcely as long as the calyx, very broad, gibbous at the
base. Petals 5, of a pale blush, two upper ones broadest,
obovate, with a dark reddish purple spot in the centré, below
which are several lines that are slightly branched, lower
ones oblong, rounded at the points, which are a little uneven,
but scarcely crenulate, underneath strongly 2-nerved, each
nerve trifid. Stamens 10, connected at the base, 7 only
bearing anthers. Style purple, smooth its whole length. Stigmas 5, purple, revolute.