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PELARGONIUM tomentosum. 
Penny-royal Stork's-bill. 
P. tomentosum, umbellis multifloris subpaniculatis, fo- 
liis cordatis hastato-quinquelobis villosis mollissi- 
mis, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo breviori. 
Peiargonium tomentosum. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 677. 
^Botan. magaz.KilS. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 537. Coll. 
5. p. 140. Pers. syn. 2. f. 232. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
t;. 4. /?. 177. 
^^em shrubby, thick and succulent, much branch- 
ed ; branches widely spreading in all directions, thickly 
clothed with long villous hairs. Leaves cordate, sub- 
hastate, 5-lobed, unequally toothed with short rigid 
teeth, many-nerved, densely tomentose on each side. 
Petioles longer than the leaves, deeply furrowed on the 
upper side and rounded on the lower, thickly clothed 
with long shaggy hairs. Stipules cordate, acute, 
densely villous. Umbels many-flowered, generally pa- 
nicled, divaricate. Peduncles cylindrical, villous, as 
are the calyx and bractes. Involucre of 6 or 7 ovate, 
acuminate, fringed bractes. Pedicles unequal in length, 
long and slender, spreading. Calyx 5-cleft, segments 
lanceolate, acute. Nectariferous tube about half the 
length of the calyx. Petals 5, the two upper ones ob- 
longly obovate, white, with a red spot near the base; 
lower ones linearly spatulate, of the same colour. 
Filaments 10, united at the base, of a red colour, seven 
bearing anthers. Pollen orange-coloured. Germen and 
aristae hairy. Style hairy. Stigmas 5, reflexed. 
This plant, often known by the naijie of the Pepper- 
mint-scented Geranium, is an old inhabitant of our 
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