PELARGONIUM heteromallum.
Soft woolly Stork1 s-bill.
P . heteromallum, caule erecto villoso-tomentoso, foliis
cordato-reniformibus obsolete 5-7-lobis inaequaliter
obtuse dentatis mucronatis utrinque villoso-tomen-
tosis mollissimis, stipulis ovatis carinatis breviter
acuminatis, umbellis plurifloris, tubo lyce multo breviore. nectarifero ca-
PelaCrgolovn. icuamta lh. eetdeirt.omallum. Swt. hort. brit.p. 79. n. 107. 3. p. 27. col. 2.
Stem frutescent, erect, thickly clothed with villous
hairs, and short down underneath; branches erect, rather
flexuose, thickly clothed with villous unequal hairs. Leaves cordately reniform, scarcely acute, nearly flat,
or slightly undulate, shortly lobed with 5 to 7 lobes, and
toothed with unequal, broad, obtuse teeth, that terminate
in a very short point or mucrone, densely clothed
on both sides with a short pubescence and villous hairs
intermixed, which occasions it to feel very soft, very similar
to the feel of soft velvet; margins fringed with
short hairs: underneath strongly 3-nerved from the base,
the nerves much branched. Petioles flattened on the upper
side, and convex on the lower, widened and thickened
a little at the base, densely clothed with short woolly
down, and long spreading hairs intermixed. Stipules
ovate, terminated abruptly into an acuminate point,
densely villous and fringed. Umbels several-flowered. Peduncles villosely hairy, as are the bractes, pedicles,
calyx, and nectariferous tube. Involucre of 6 or 7 broadly
lanceolate, keeled bractes, that are terminated with a
short sharp point, or mucrone. Pedicles longer than the
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, acute;