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PELARGONIUM calocephalon. 
Pretty 'headed Stork' s-bill. 
P. calocephalon, umbellis plurifloris capitatis, foliis 
planis cordatis subseptemlobatis hirsutis dentatis: 
lobis acutiusculis, stipulis acuminatis subdentatis, 
tubo nectarifero calyce duplo breviore. 
TuU's Imperial Geranium. Hortulanorum. 
Stem shrubby, branching; branches spreading, 
thickly clothed with long shaggy hairs, as are the pe- 
tioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves flat, cordate, 
acute, deeply 5 or 7-lobed, thickly clothed on both 
sides with short hairs, sharply toothed with short un- 
equal teeth, strongly and numerously nerved under- 
neath: lobes a little pointed. Petioles shorter than 
the leaves, flattened and furrowed on the upper side 
and convex on the lower, a little wideped at the base. 
Stipules lanceolate, taper pointed, fringed, sometimes 
toothed. Peduncles cylindrical, several - flowered. 
Flowers in a close compact head. Involucre of six or 
seven long lanceolate acute keeled bractes. Pedicles 
very short, scarcely half the length of the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft, segments very long, lanceolate, acute, 
spreading or slightly reflexed. Nectariferous tube about 
half the length of the caljrx, flattened and furrowed 
on each side, villous. Petals 5, all obovate, of a pale 
blush ; upper ones elegantly marked with a red spot 
and numerous branching lines. Stamens 1 0, united at 
the base, seven producing anthers which are always 
without pollen. Style long, flesh-coloured, very hairy 
on the lower part and smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, 
of the same colour, with curled points. 
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