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PELARGONIUM acetabulosum.
Saucer-leaved Stork’s-bill.
P. acetabulosum, foliis cordato-reniformibus subquinque-
lobis subcucullatis undulatis rigidis inaequaliter den-
tatis utrinque hirsutis: margine subincurvis, stipulis
ovatis acutis cartilagineo-dentatis villoso-ciliatis, um-
bellis plurifloris, petalis obovatis, tubo nectarifero
calyce subsequkli.
Stem fruteseent, much branched: branches spreading,
thickly clothed with long unequal villous hairs. Leaves rerdiorm, or cordate, or between both, slightly 5-lo*
bed, generally broader than long, rather acute, rigid,
undulate, hollow, with the margins turned up and bent
inwards a little, very unequally toothed, with sharp cartilaginous
teeth, densely clothed on both sides, and
fringed with short hairs, underneath strongly 3-nerved,
the nerves much branched. Petioles much flattened,
and furrowed on the upper side, convex on the lower,
thickly clothed with spreading hairs, as are the peduncles,
bractes, and calyx. Stipules ovate, acute, generally
toothed, villous, and fringed. Umbels generally 5 or 6-
flowered. Peduncles cylindrical. Involucre of from 6 to
8 braqtes, more or less connected: bractes lanceolate,
acute, keeled. Pedicles about double the length of the
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute,
tinged with brown: upper one largest, erect, the others
spreading, or their points reflexed. Nectariferous tube
rather variable in length, much flattened at the sides
and gibbous at the base, generally about the length of
the calyx. Petals 5, all obovate, the two upper ones largest,
unequal-sided, of a red salmon colour, with a dark