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PELARGONIUM candidum. 
Fair-flowered Stork' s-hill. 
P. candidum, umbellis plurifloris, foliis superioribus 
cordatis trilobis inaequaliter obtuse dentatis pilosis 
canescentibus, pedunculis calycibusque villosissimis, 
stipulis cordatis, tubo nectarifero calycis longitu- 
dine. 
Pelargonium candidum. Hoare MSS. 
Stem shrubby, branching; branches thickly clothed 
with soft villous unequal hairs. Leaves on the upper 
part of the stem cordate, 3-lobed, unequally and 
bluntly toothed with short rigid teeth, thickly clothed 
on both sides with soft villous hairs which give them 
a hoary appearance. Petioles widely flattened on the 
upper side and convex on the lower. Stipules short, 
cordate, bluntish, sometimes toothed, mucronate. Pe- 
duncles cylindrical, several-flowered, thickly clothed 
with soft villous unequal hairs, as are the bractes, ca- 
lyx, and nectariferous tube. Involucre of about 6 
bractes joined at the base ; these are ovate, concave, 
and taper-pointed. Pedicles unequal in length, vil- 
lous. Cali/x 5-cleft, segments unequal, widely' lan- 
ceolate, acute, spreading. Nectariferous tube about 
the length of the calyx, flattened on each side and 
gibbous at the base. Petals 5, roundly obovate, the 
2 uppermost widest, oblique at the base, of a light 
blush colour with a bright reddish purple spot in the 
centre and a few lines below it and branching from it, 
lower ones nearly white. Filaments 10, united at the 
base, 7 bearing anthers. Pollen orange-coloured. 
Style flesh-coloured, slightly haiiy at the base and 
