PELARGONIUM porphyreon.
Bright purple Stork’s-bill.
P. porphyreon, foliis inferioribus cordato-reniformibus
subquinquelobis undulatis insequaliter dentatis utrin-
que hirsutis: superioribus subrotundis aut basi attenuates
argute dentatis, stipulis ovatis obliquis apice
acuminatis subdentatis, involucro basi connato:
bracteis ovatis cuspidatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo
nectarifero calyce subaequali, stylo glaberrimo.
Stem stout, fruteseent, erect, more or less branched : branches thickly clothed with long spreading white hairs,
and numerous smaller ones intermixed. Leaves variable,
hairy on both sides, unequally toothed, strongly and
numerously nerved underneath, the nerves much branch-
e d : lower ones very large, nearly 6 inches broad, and 4
and a half long, scarcely acute, slightly 5-lobed, undulate,
and toothed with numerous shortish, rigid teeth,
that are very unequal in length : upper leaves rounded,
or some of them attenuated towards the base, more
sharply toothed with longer teeth. Petioles stout, flattened
and slightly furrowed on the upper side, and convex
below, very hairy. Stipules ovate, unequal-sided,
tapering to a long slender point, more or less toothed or
sometimes entire, clothed with long woolly hairs, and
fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, clothed with unequal
spreading hairs. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre connected
at the base, forming a sort of cup, the bractes
ovate, terminated in a sharp point, keeled, villosely
hairy, and fringed. Pedicles villous, scarcely so long as
the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate,
acute, of a purplish brown, villosely hairy, more or less
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