PELARGONIUM latifolium.
Broad-leaved Stork's-bill.
P. latifolium, foliis reniformibus carnosis planis grosse
dentatis ciliatis utrinque subpilosis; superioribus 3-5-
lobis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis ciliatis, umbellis multi-
floris, calycibus reflexis, petalis omnibus obovatis, tubo
nectarifero calyce parum breviore.
Pelargonium latifolium. Swt.hort.brit.add.p.471. w.428.
Stem very stout, shrubby, branching; branches more
or less spreading, thickly clothed with spreading villous
white hairs, which are very unequal in length. Leaves kidney
form, succulent, nearly flat, or but slightly undulate,
much broader than long; the largest about 7 inches broad,
and 5 in length, scarcely lobed, but toothed with very large
rigid teeth, clothed on both sides with shortish hairs, the
margins ciliate, underneath many nerved, the nerves branched
: upper leaves with short footstalks, more deeply 5 or
3-lobed, with longer and sharper teeth, the uppermost cu-
neate at the base. Petioles more or less flattened on the
upper side, and rounded on the lower, also thickly clothed
with very unequal hairs. Stipules ovate, with long taper
points, clothed with short hairs, and fringed with long villous
ones. Peduncles cylindrical, also thickly clothed with
very unequal hairs, as are the bractes, pedicles, calyx, and
nectariferous tube. Umbels 6 to 8-flowered. Involucre of
several lanceolate, acute, keeled bractes. Pedicles about
the length of, or a little longer than the bractes. Calyx
5-cleft, segments very long, reflexed, the upper one largest,
broadly lanceolate, the others unequal in size, and more reflexed.
Nectariferous tube a little shorter than the calyx,
much tals 5, flattened on each side, and gibbous at the base. Pe
all obovate, the two upper ones broadest, and