PELARGONIUM acutidentatum.
Acute-toothed. Stork's-bill.
P. acutidentatum, m l cordatis acutis 5-7-lobis acute
ineequaliter dentatis glabriusculis: dentibus denti-
culato-ciliatis, stipulis lanceolatis longe acuminatis
ciliatis, umbellis plurifloris, lacinns calycmis longis-
sime lanceolatis acutis tubo nectanfero longionbus.
Stem frutescent, erect, clothed with a glossy brown
bark: branches erect, or slightly spreading, somewhat
flexuose, thinly clothed with spreading hairs that are
very unequal in length. Leaves cordate, acute, broader
than long, slightly undulate, 5 to 7-lobed, and toothed
with numerous very unequal sharp rigid teeth, strongly
3-nerved from the base underneath, the nerves again
3-nerved, and branching all over the leaf, of a bright
green, nearly smooth, but thinly clothed with a few
short hairs on both sides, that are most abundant on the
nerves and veins; lobes acute, slightly recurved at the
points; the teeth fringed with stiff tooth-like hairs. Petioles
flattened on the upper side and convex below,
broad and thickened at the base, clothed with very unequal
spreading hairs. Stipules lanceolate, tapering to a
long slender point, and fringed. Umbels several-flowered. Peduncles long, and rather slender, slightly angular,
clothed with unequal hairs. Involucre of 6 lanceolate,
taper-pointed, keeled bractes, that are fringed at the
edges, and terminated at the points with long hairs. Pedicles long and slender, hairy. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments
very long, lanceolate, acute, thickly clothed with
spreading hairs, and woolly at the edges, nearly double