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PELARGONIUM erectum. 
Upright Stork' s-hill. 
P. erectum, umbellis multifloris subpaniculatis, petalis 
obcordatis, foliis cordatis inciso-lobatis undulatis 
obtuse grosseque dentatis subtus tomentosis, brac- 
teis magnis calyce sesquilongioribus, stipulis sub- 
ulatis persistentibus, caule crasso carnoso erecto. 
Stem erect, sufFruticose, thick and succulent, cloth- 
ed with a hard glossy bark, scarcely branching. Leaves 
cordate, jagged or lobate, undulate, bluntly toothed 
with large teeth, clothed with a short pubescence on 
the upper side and densely tomentose on the lower 
Petioles slightly flattened on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, swollen at the base, villous. Stipules 
subulate, fringed, persistent. Scape erect, villous 
leafy. Peduncles in a kind of panicle, thickened to- 
wards the base, ^villous, producing many-flowered um- 
bels. Involucre of several large oblong or lanceolate 
acute, concave, villous bractes, all joined at the base' 
about half as long again as the calyx. Pedicles verv 
short, scarcely any. Calyx 5-cleft ; segments oblon/ 
obtuse, villous, all reflexed. Nectariferous tube nearly 
four times the length of the calyx, flattened on both 
sides, villous. Petals 5, obcordate, the two upper 
most rather largest, the upper part of a rosy colour 
the lower part white; between the two colours are two 
reddish purple spots, sometimes confluent^ and below 
these are several linear red specks : lower petals of a 
rosy lilac. Filaments 10, united at the base, erect six 
bearing anthers, besides a large spatulate-shaped one 
terminated in a sharp point, but producing no anther' 
