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PELARGONIUM platypetalon. 
Broad-petaled Stork' s-bilL 
P. platypetalon, umbellis plurifloris, foliis inferioribus 
cordatis obsolete lobatis ineequaliter dentatis hir- 
sutis ; superioribus basi cuneatis, petalis omnibus 
rotundato-obovatis ; superioribus "refltxis, tubo nec- 
tarifero calyee duplo breviori. 
a. rigidunij foliis rigidioribus, petalis latioribus : su- 
perioribus macula magna atropurpurea et striis 
ramosis pictis. Fig. a. 
Pelargonium Oldenburgh, major. Hoare getmn. p. 28. 
/3. hirsutum, foliis latioribus magis hirsutis^ petalis mi 
noribus maculis et striis obscurioribus. Fig, b. 
Oldenburgh Geranium. Hortulanorum, 
Stem shrubby, branching; branches erect, thickly 
covered with soft villous hairs. Lower leaves cordate, 
slightly lobed, unequally toothed ; teeth ending in a 
blunt callous point : upper leaves wedge-shaped at the 
base, all slightly hairy. Petioles shorter than the leaf, 
flattened and channelled on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, thickly clothed with soft villous hairs, as 
are the stipules, peduncles, involucre and calyx. Stipules 
cordate, acute, often deeply cloven at the point, ge- 
nerally toothed and ciliate. Peduncles solitary, either 
^xillary or opposite to the leaf, 3 to 5 flowered. Invo- 
lucre of several lanceolate acute fringed bractes. Pe- 
dicles unequal in length, of a reddish brown colour. 
Calyx 5-cleft, segments erect, unequal, lanceolate, acute, 
strongly nerved. Nectariferous tube about half the 
, length of the calyx, slightly flattened on both sides 
