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PELARGONIUM ovale. 
Oval- leaved Stork's- bill. 
P. ovale, caule sufFruticoso tortuoso debili prostrate ; 
ramis petiolis pedunculisque molliter hispidis ; fo- 
liis ovalibus acutis dentatis catiescentibus, umbellis 
sub-5-floris longe pedunculatis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce breviore. DC. prod. 1. p. 666. 
Pelargonium ovale. LHMt. ger. t. 28. Willden. sp. 
pi. 3. p. 653. Pers. syn. 2. p. 228. Hart. Kew. 
ed.2. V. 4. p. 166. 
Stem suffruticose, weak and trailing, more or less 
twisted, clothed with brown persistent stipules ; branches 
ascending, thickly covered with long soft villous hairs, 
as are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves oval, 
acute, sharply and deeply toothed, strongly veined un- 
derneath, densely clothed on both sides with a soft 
canescent pubescence. Petioles long and slender, flat- 
tened and furrowed on the upper side and convex on 
the lower, swollen at the base. Stipules broadly lan- 
ceolate, taper-pointed, brown and scariose, fringed. 
Peduncles very long, much twisted, 4 or 5-flowered. 
Involucre of 6 or 7 linear, acute, villous bractes. Pe- 
dicles long and slender, unequal in length. Calyx 5- 
cleft, segments lanceolate, acute, all reflexed. Necta- 
riferous tube about half the length of the calyx, flat- 
tened on each side, villous. Petals 5, narrowly obovate 
or oblong, the two upper ones rather the shortest, 
slightly retuse, one of them auriculate on one side at 
the base of the unguis, the ear turned back, of a pinky 
lilac, slightly streaked at the bottom ; lower ones of 
rather a lighter colour. Filaments 10, united at the 
