PELARGONIUM recurvifolium.
Recurved-leaved Storlc s-bill.
P. recurvifolium, ramis flexuosis villosis, foliis cordatis
acutis lobatis undulatis inaequaliter cartilagineo-denta-
tis punctato-scabris utrinque pilosis: marginibus et
apice recurvis, stipulis cordato-ovatis ciliatis, umbellis
plurifloris, tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali aut parum
longiore.
Pelargonium recurvifolium. Swt. hart. brit. addenda,
p. 471. «.431.
Stem shrubby, branching: branches flexuose, thickly
clothed with long spreading very unequal villous hairs, as
are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cordate, acute,
more or less deeply 5 to 9-lobed, and toothed with very unequal
sharp rigid teeth, hairy on both sides, and very rough,
occasioned by numerous small tubercles with which the
surface of the leaves are covered, margins and point undulate
and recurved, underneath strongly and numerously
nerved. Petioles flattened on the upper side and convex
on the lower, widened at the base. Stipules cordately ovate,
duncles blunt, but terminated by a sharp mucrone, fringed. Pe
long, cylindrical, more or less bent. Umbels several
flowered. Involucre of 6 short, ovate, blunt bractes. Pedicles unequal in length, but longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments broadly lanceolate, acute, spreading.
Nectariferous tube about the length of or a little longer
than the calyx, flattened on each side, and gibbous at
the base. Petals 5, obovate, the two upper ones broadest,
very unequal sided, the edges crenulate, white, with a large
dark purple spot in the centre, below which are numerous
dark purple lines, some of which are slightly branched: