PELARGONIUM viridifolium.
Bright green-leaved Stork's-bill.
P. viridifolium, foliis cordato-ovatis acutis undulatis ru-
gosis subquinquelobis argute dentatis rigidis glabrius-
culis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis acutis ciliatis, umbellis
laxis plurifloris, floribus pedicellatis, tubo nectarifero
calyce reflexo sesquilongiore.
Stern fruticose, branching; branches more or less
flexuose, thickly clothed with spreading unequal villous
hairs. Leaves cordately ovate, acute, shortly 5-lobed,
sharply but unequally toothed, smooth or but slightly pubescent,
underneath strongly and numerously nerved, of a
dark green colour. Petioles short, much flattened, and
furrowed on the upper side, and rounded on the lower,
thickly clothed with very short hairs, and a few longer
ones intermixed. Stipules ova.te\y lanceolate, acute, fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, clothed thickly with very unequal
hairs, some very short, and longer volucre ones intermixed. In
of 6 or 7 broadly lanceolate acute fringed bractes. Pedicles longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, hairy,
the upper segment about double the breadth of the others,
broadly lanceolate, keeled, upright, or the point slightly
reflexed, the others narrowly lanceolate, acute, woolly
within and without, with white fringed margins, reflexed
or revolute. Petals 5, spreading, two upper ones obovate,
of a light salmon colour, with a white mark down the centre,
and striped with numerous purple lines, that become
very light at the points and are slightly branched, strongly
two-nerved at the back, the nerves forked and branching:
lower petals oblong, with rounded points, of a lighter colour,
4-nerved at the back. Filaments 10, connected at
the base, 7 bearing, anthers. Style pale coloured, slightly