PELARGONIUM cordiforme.
Heart-shaped Stork's-bill.
P. cordiforme, caule erecto ramoso, foliis cordato-ovatis
acutis margine undulatis inaequaliter lobatis grosse
dentatis glabriusculis, stipulis ovatis acutis carinatis
ciliatis, umbellis 4-5-floris, sepalis reflexis, tubo
nectarifero calyce paulo breviore, stylo hirsutissimo.
Stem frutescent, erect, much branched: branches
erect, or but little spreading, thickly clothed with
spreading unequal soft white hairs, as are the petioles,
peduncles, pedicles, and calyx. Leaves heart-shaped,
inclining to ovate, acute, undulate at the edges, unequally
lobed with short lobes, some leaves being
scarcely at all lobed, toothed with numerous large teeth
and some smaller ones intermixed, of a smoothish appearance,
though hairy on both sides, the hairs not
being perceptible except held up to the light. Petioles
slightly flattened, and furrowed a little on the upper
side, convex below, dilated a little at the base. Stipules
ovate, or somewhat cordate, tapering to a sharp point,
keeled at the back, very hairy and fringed. Umbels 4
to 5-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, thickened at the
base. Involucre of 5 or 6 short, ovate, bluntish bractes,
terminated with a sharp mucrone, sometimes toothed,
and more or less connected from the base, villosely
hairy. Pedicles about double the length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, taper-pointed,
upper one broadest, and generally erect, the others re-
flexed, all more or less tinged with a brownish purple. Nectariferous tube scarcely so long as the calyx, much
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