PELARGONIUM flabellifolium.
Fan-leaved Stork’s-bill.
V. flabellifolium, ramis villosis, foliis reniformi-flabelli-
formibus inæqualiter argute dentatis multinerviis
utrinque villoso-pilosis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis
longe acuminatis villosis, umbellis subquadrifloris,
segmentis calycinis acuminatis villosis, petalis omnibus
obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce dimidio bre-
viore.
Stem stout, erect, frutescent: branches erect, or
spreading a little, thickly clothed with spreading shaggy
hairs, as are the petioles, pedicles, bractes, and calyx Leaves large, fan-shaped, inclining to kidney-shaped,
not cordate at the base; much broader than long; deeply
toothed with numerous unequal sharp teeth, the longest
reflexed a little at the points: thickly clothed on both
sides with soft woolly hairs; underneath strongly nerved
with numerous nerves from the base, that branch all
over the leaf, and cause furrows on the upper side: upper leaves near the flowers, ovate, acute, tapering towards
the base. Petioles flattened on the upper side and
rounded below, widened a little at the base. Stipules
ovate or ovately lanceolate, broad at the base, and tapering
to a long slender point, villous. Flowers in a sort
of panicle. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less bent. Umbels generally four-flowered. Involucre of 6 or 7 bractes,
more or less connected: bractes broadly lanceolate,
taper-pointed, generally keeled, villous. Pedicles very
short, much shorter than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the