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PELARGONIUM monstrum. 
Cluster 'leaved Stork' s- bill. 
P. monstrum, pedunculis capitatis multifloris, foliis orbi- 
biculato-reniformibus obsolete lobatis subzonatis 
complicatis crispis. 
Pelargonium monstrum. IVilld. sp. pi. 3. p. 668. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 172. Pers. syn. vol. 2. p. 231. 
L'Herit. ger. n. 63. 
Ste?n sbrubby, thick, and irregularly swollen, rather 
succulent, and producing many short thick slightly pu- 
bescent branches, crowded with leaves. Leaves of a 
round kidney shape, dark green and obscurely marked 
with a dark circle, slightly lobed; lobes dentate and 
curled at the margins, strongly nerved; nerves thinly 
covered with hairs. Petioles longer than the leaf, 
thick, channelled on the upper side, thickly covered 
with short rough hairs. Stipules cordate, subdentate 
with an acute point, soon withering and falling off. 
Peduncles hid amongst the leaves or rarely coniing 
above them, very stiff, swollen at the base, a little 
flattened on the upper side, and covered with very 
short rigid hairs. Flowers in a close head, from 5 
to 15 or more. Involucre of 6 or more bractes, ovate 
ending in an acute point, soon withering and falling 
off. Calyx 5-cleft, segments unequal, lanceolate, co- 
vered with stiff hairs. Nectariferous tube sessile, vari- 
able in length and swollen at the base. Corolla of 5 
spatulate petals, the 2 uppermost narrowest and 
shortest, all of a bright rose colour marked with 
darker veins. Filaments 10 united at the base, short, 
erect, 7 only bearing anthers, the 2 back ones much 
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