PELARGONIUM vestifluum.
Clothed Stortc’s-bill.
P . vestifluum, villosissimum, foliis reniformibus inaequa-
liter cartilagineo-dentatis multinerviis: superioribus
subquinquelobis acutis, stipulis ovatis acutis, um-
bellis subpaniculatis 4-5-floris, calycibus reflexis,
tubo nectarifero calyce breviore.
Stem erect, frutescent, branching; every part of the
plant except the corolla covered with long spreading unequal
white woolly hairs, which gives the whole plant a
white shaggy appearance. Leaves kidney-shaped, ending
in rather an acute point, broader than long, soft to
the touch, which is occasioned by the numerous soft hairs
with which they are covered, sharply toothed with numerous
rigid horny teeth, that are very unequal in length,
those at the ends of the nerves longest: underneath
strongly and numerously nerved, the nerves branching
all over the leaves: lower ones not lobed: upper ones
slightly 5-lobed, acute, and more sharply toothed. Petioles
flattened and furrowed on the upper side, and
rounded on the lower, a little widened at the base. Stipules
ovate, acute, generally entire, but sometimes slightly
toothed. Umbels 4 or 5-flowered, in a sort of panicle.
Flowers white, handsome, marked with purple. Peduncles
cylindrical, more or less bent. Involucre of 6 to 8
very short bractes, that are broadly ovate, or nearly
round, often toothed, terminated in a sharp abrupt point.
Pedicles long and slender, but unequal in length. Calyx
5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute, all reflexed.
Petals 5, pure white, the two upper ones broadest,
oblongly obovate, unequal-sided, slightly undulate,
marked in the centre with a rich bright purple spot that
extends downwards, and below which it is marked