PELARGONIUM poculifolium.
Cup-leaved Stork’s-bill.
P . poculifolium, foliis rotundo-reniformibus cucullatis
inaequaliter denticulatis basi subimbricatis utrinque
pilosis mollissimis, stipulis lato-ovatis subdentatis
acutis, umbellis multifloris, petalis superioribus re-
flexis, calycibus villosis, tubo nectarifero calyce
dimidio breviore.
Stem strong, frutescent, much branched: branches
thickly clothed with spreading unequal villous hairs. Leaves large, broader than long, nearly round, or sometimes
kidney-shaped, generally overlapping or imbricate
at the base, hollow or cup-shaped, toothed with
shortish unequal sharp teeth, clothed on both sides with
soft hairs, which occasions it to feel very soft, strongly
nerved underneath, the nerves branching. Petioles
broadly flattened, and slightly furrowed on the upper
side, and convex on the lower, a little widened at the
base, villosely hairy. Stipules broad, cordately ovate,
abruptly acute, generally toothed, very hairy and fringed.
Peduncles axillary or opposite to a leaf, slightly
angular, villous. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre of
numerous cordate or cordately-ovate bractes, that are
keeled and abruptly acute, villous. Pedicles about twice
the length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, tinged with a
brownish purple, clothed with long shaggy hairs I segments
broadly lanceolate, acute, spreading when the
flower is expanded, or the points slightly reflexed, upper
one largest. Petals 5, the two upper ones broadest,
obovate, rather unequal-sided, of a pale red purple,
marked from the base upwards with numerous darker
lines that are branched and run into each other, marked