PELARGONIUM abutiloides.
Abutilon-leaved StorTc's-bill.
P. abutiloides, foliis cordatis acutis 7-9-lobis denticulatis
rubro-marginatis molliter pubescentibus multinerviis;
lobis acutis mucronatis, stipulis cordato-ovatis acutis,
pedunculis plurifloris paniculatis, petalis inferioribus
linearibus acutis, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo bre-
viore.
Stem erect, frutescent, clothed with a hard brown
streaked bark, hairy, and branched: branches slightly
flexuose, thickly clothed with unequal spreading white hairs. Leaves cordate, acute, flat, or sometimes a little cucullate
towards the base; toothed with short reddish brown horny
teeth, the margins also of a reddish brown, clothed with
short hairs on both sides, very soft to the touch; upper side
of a glossy green: underneath clothed with a short close
down that gives a whitish appearance, strongly nerved with
numerous nerves, that branch all over the leaves, and terminate
in small veins like net-work; lobes divaricately
spreading, oblong, rather acute, mucronate, or the terminal
tooth longest. Petioles long, a little flattened, slightly
furrowed on the upper side, and convex on the lower, a
little widened at the base, clothed with unequal spreading
hairs, and short down underneath. Stipules broad, cor-
dately ovate, hairy and fringed, 5 keeled at the back. Umbels to 8-flowered, in terminal panicles. Peduncles cylindrical,
hairy. Involucre of 6 broadly lanceolate, acute, keeled
bractes, that are hairy and fringed. Pedicles longer than
the nectariferous tube, the upper part purple, hairy. Calyx
5-cleft, the segments erect or spreading, lanceolate, taper-
pointed, strongly nerved, villosely hairy, more or less purple,
the upper segment largest and of the deepest purple.