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PELARGONIUM heracleifolium. 
Heracleum-leaved Stork^ s-hill. 
P. heracleifolium, acaule, umbellis plurifloris, foliis 
inferioribus oblongis integris laciniatisque superio- 
ribus pinnatifidis pinnatisque pulverulento-pubes- 
centibus; segmentis foliolisque oblongis obtusis si- 
nuato-lobatis inaequaliter obtuse dentatis, calycibus 
reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce triplo longiori. 
Pelargonium heracleifolium. Lodd. hoU cab. t. 437. 
Colv. catal. ed. 2. p. 22. col. 1. DC. prodr. ^st. 
nat. 1. p. 654. 
Root tuberous, very large and uneven, and clothed 
with a hard scaly shell, producing very few small tu- 
bers or fibres. Stem none, or v-ery short. Leaves very 
variable, covered with a powdery pubescence: lower 
ones oblong, simple, or lacinated; upper ones ternate, 
pinnatifid or pinnate, strongly nerved underneath; 
segments or leaflets oblong, obtuse, sinuately lobed, the 
upper one much the largest and most divided; margins 
a little waved or curled, bluntly but deeply toothed 
with numerous unequal teeth. Petioles nearly round, 
or slightly flattened on the upper side, thickly clothed 
with short villous hairs. Stipules short, cordate, acute, 
membranaceous. Peduncles long, several-flowered, 
and clothed with short spreading hairs, with a few long 
ones intermixed. Involucre of 8 or 9 unequal linear, or 
lanceolate, pointed bractes. Pedicles short, scarcely 
as long as the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments un- 
equal, lanceolate, bluntish, all reflexed or revolute. 
Nectariferous tube more than three times the length of 
the calyx, slender at the base, and gradually widening 
upwards. Petals 5, the two upper ones rather the 
