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PELARGONIUM formosissimum. 
Superb white Stork's-bill. 
P. formosissimum, umbellis plurifloris, foliis ovatis 
acutis concavis rigidis sublobatis ineequaliter carti- 
lagineo-dentatis basi truncatis multinerviis, bracteis 
ovatis pedicellis subbrevioribus, tubo nectarifero 
brevissimo calyce triple breviore. 
Pelargonium formosissimum. Pers. syn. 2. p. 231. 
Pelargonium formosum. Desf. arb.2. p. 459, Horn 
supp. 75. non Andrewsii. 
a. album. Supra fig. a. 
^. lineatim. Supra fig. b. 
Pelargonium superbum. Nob. in Colv. catal. p. 22 
col. 1. Supra No. 33. in obs. ^ 
^t^a J^ shrubby, erect branching; hrmches short 
and stiff, nearly erect, thickly clothed with leaves, and 
covered with soft yi lous unequal hai,^. Leaves ovate, 
« concave, rigid, sharply and unequally toothed 
with long cartilaginous teeth, sUghtly hairy on both 
sides truncate and entire at the base, strongly nerved. 
Pehoks widely flattened and furrowed on the upper 
w^ ^""'"'^'' T- J")^ dilated at the 
base and apex; thickly clothed with soft villous un- 
equal hairs, as are the peduncles, pedicles, and calyx. 
Stipules ovate, bluntish, keeled, fringed and some- 
times toothed. Peduncles a little flattened, 3 to 6- 
flowered. Involucre of about six or eight ovate, keeled 
