PELARGONIUM cartilagineum.
Horny-toothed Stork's-bill.
P . cartilagineum, foliis rotund ato-cordatis trilobis undu-
lato-plicatis rigidis cartilagineo-dentatis, stipulis cor-
dato-ovatis ciliatis, pedunculis plurifloris, calycibus vil-
losis, tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali.
Pelargonium cartilagineum. Swt. Jiort. hr it. add. p. 471 ■
n. 407.
Stem shrubby, not much branched, thickly clothed
with spreading villous hairs, as are the petioles, stipules,
peduncles, and calyx. Leaves rigid, cordate, rounded, 3-
lobed, very much undulate or plaited, and toothed with
numerous sharp rigid horny teeth, thinly covered with hairs
on both sides, of a dark green colour. Petioles flattened on
the upper side and convex on the lower, thickened at the
base. Stipules cordate, or cordately ovate, acute, and fringed.
Peduncles cylindrical. Umbels several-volucre flowered. In
of 6 oblongly ovate, villous bractes. Pedicles unequal
in length, villous. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate
taper-pointed, very unequal in size. Nectariferous tube broadly flattened on each side and gibbous at the
base, about the length of the calyx. Petals 5, of a bright
salmon colour, stained with red, the two upper ones obo-
vate, unequal sided, with a purple patch in the centre, below
which are several short purple lines, some of which are
branched; lower petals oblong, rounded, very much veined
underneath, the veins much branched. Filaments 10,
united at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Style purple, naked. Stigmas 5 , purple, reflexed, or revolute.
Y 2