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PELARGONIUM Robinsoni. 
Robinson's Stork' s- bill. 
P. Rohinsmif umbellis multifloris, foliis cordatis acutis 
undulatis obsolete lobatis cartilagineo - dentatis 
utrinque pubescentibus, stipulis cuneatis insequa- 
liter dentatis cuspidatis, tubo nectarifero calycem. 
subsequante. 
Pelargonium Robinsoni. Dennis MSS, 
Stem shrubby, erect, not much branched ; branches 
thickly clothed with long villous hairs, as are the pe- 
dicles, stipules, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves very 
large, lower ones about 4 or 5 inches long and the 
same in breadth, cordate, acute, very much undulate, 
slightly lobed, and toothed with unequal rigid teeth, 
densely clothed on each side with a soft pubescence, 
strongly nerved underneath, the nerves branching in 
all directions: upper leaves cuneate at the base, 
scarcely lobed. Petioles rigid, channelled on "the up- 
per side and convex on the lower, widened at the base 
and point. Stipules large, wedge-shaped, fringed, 
deeply but unequally toothed, with sharp points. Pe- 
duncles cylindrical, bearing umbels of many flowers. 
Involucre of 6 or 7 bractes, which are ovate, con- 
cave, and acute. Pedicles about the length of the 
nectariferous tube. Cali/x 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, 
taper-pointed. Nectarifet^ous tube about the length of 
the calyx, sometimes scarcely as long, flattened on 
each side and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, of a pale 
blush, the two upper ones broadly ovate, oblique at 
the base, with a dark purple spot in the centre, and 
from the base branch numerous dark lines ; lower pe- 
tals oblongly oval with rounded points. Filaments \0, 
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