ISOPETALUM Cotyledonis. 
Holly hock' leaved Isopetalum. 
Isopetalum. CaL 1-sepalus, 5-partitus : lacinia sup re- 
ma desinente in foveolum nectariferum. Pet. 5 
gequalia, rugosa. Stam. tubo brevissimo : 5-6 fer- 
tilia patentia apice incurva ; sterilia inaequalia 
subulata incurva. 
I. Cotyledonis, pedunculis proliferis : umbellis compo- 
sitis, foliis cordatis peltatis rugosis pubescentibus 
subtus tomentosis, caule crasso carnoso. 
Pelargonium Cotyledonis. Willden. sp. pL 3. p. 674. 
VHdrit. geran. t. 27. Pers. syn. 2. p. 231. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 175. 
Geranium Cotyledonis. Andrews s geran. c. ic. 
Stem succulent, very, thick, shrubby, branching, 
and clothed with brown scaly bark ; branches very 
thick and covered with the bases of the subpersistent 
stipules, which continue to scale off as the branches in- 
crease in size. Leaves peltate, cordate, reticulately 
veined, rugose, pubescent on the upper side, and on 
the lower side thickly covered with a silvery tomentum. 
Petioles slightly flattened on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, very thickly clothed with unequal villous 
white hairs, as are the peduncles, pedicles, and calyx. 
Stipules cordately lanceolate, acute, fringed, and sub- 
persistent. Peduncles proliferous, several springing 
from below the main umbel. Umheh many-flowered. 
Involucre of numerous unequal linear or subulate 
bractes. Pedicles very slender, bent upwards. Calyx 
5-cleft, segments unequal, widely lanceolate, bluntish. 
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