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PELARGONIUM pulverulentum. 
Powdered-leaved Stork' s-bill. 
P. pulvefulentum, subacaule, scapo subramoso, um- 
bellis multifloris, foliis rotundato-cordatis sublo- 
batis crenatis pulverulento-tomentosis carnosis, 
petalis superioribus paulo minoribus bimaculatis. 
Pelargonium pulverulentum. Colv. catal. ed. 2. p. 22. 
col. I. 
Root tuberous, very large, and covered with a rough 
brown, cracked bark. Stems very short and rough. 
Leaves succulent, roundly cordate, obtuse, more or less 
lobed, unequally and bluntly notched, covered on both 
sides with a dense powdery pubescence, quite white 
when young. Petioles about the length of the leaves, 
flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, 
thickly clothed with short white hairs, as are the pe- 
duncles, calyx, and nectariferous tube. Stipides cor- 
date, acute, fringed. Scape leafy, slightly branched. 
Peduncles long, many-flowered. Involucre of from six 
to eight broadly lanceolate taper-pointed bractes. Pe- 
dicles very short. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, 
concave, all reflexed. Nectariferous tube more than 
three times longer than the calyx, flattened on each 
side, gradually thickening upwards. Petals 5, ob- 
ovale, concave, the two upper ones rather smallest, 
yellow, with two dark spots above the middle ; lower 
petals edged with yellow, with a dark velvetty middle. 
Filaments 10, short and straight, united at the base, 
one of them a very large spatulate one; as in the 
others of the section, this bears no anther, six of the 
others bearing fertile anthers. Style short, smooth. 
Stigmas 5, fimbriate, revolute. 
