PELARGONIUM cuneiflorum.
Wedge-petaled Storle s-bill.
P. cuneiflorum, foliis cordatis rugosis profunde lobatis
utrinque pilosis: lobis lato-ovatis rotundato-obtusis
subimbricatis obtuse dentatis, stipulis lanceolatis mar-
gine reflexis, umbellis multifloris, petalis cuneatis, tubo
nectarifero subsessili calyce subsequali.
Pelargonium cuneiflorum. Swt. hart. brit. addenda.
Stem shrubby, stout, much branched: branches thickly
clothed with spreading villous hairs, as are the petioles,
peduncles, bractes, and calyx. Leaves very large, broader
than long, deeply lobed, rugose and rough, hairy on both
sides, of a dark green colour, strongly and numerously
nerved underneath, the small nerves reticulately branched: large leaves 7 or 9-lobed, the lobes lapping over each
other, or scarcely distinct, very broad, ovate, bluntly rounded,
and toothed with short rounded 3 teeth : smaller leaves to Globed, more undulate, the lobes distinctly spreading. Petioles much flattened on the upper side, and convex on
the lower. Stipules broadly lanceolate, acute, the margins
folded back, sometimes toothed. Peduncles cylindrical.
Umbels capitate, many-flowered. Involucre of
6 or 7 lanceolate, acute bractes, all connected at the base. Pedicles very short, or altogether wanting. Calyx 5-cleft,
segments lanceolate, acute, the upper one largest, all reflexed.
Petals 5, all cuneate, the two upper ones broadest,
of a bright scarlet, with a dark velvetty patch in the
centre, below which are numerous dark purple stripes reticulately
branched, strongly two-nerved at the back, each
nerve forked : lower petals of a lighter colour, three-nerved
at the back. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing
anthers, which are always sterile in the specimens we
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