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PELARGONIUM cardiifolium. 
Cockle-shell leaved Storh' s-hill. 
P. cardiifolium, umbellis multifloris, foliis cuneatis 
plicatis quinquelobis cartilagineo-dentatis cucullatis, 
tubo nectarifero calyce duplo breviori. 
Stem shrubby, growing to a great size, branching ; 
hranches erect, stiff, thickly covered with soft villous 
hairs. Leaves rigid, wedge-shaped at the base, strongly 
ribbed, plicate, cucullate, 5-lobed, unequally toothed, 
with long stiff horny teeth of a purplish colour, which 
diminish in size towards the base. Petiole shorter than 
the leaf, widely flattened above, and covered with soft 
villous hairs; as are the leaves, peduncles, calyx, and 
bractes. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate. Peduncles 
many-flowered. Involucre of many bractes, unequal in 
number, and of various sizes; ir«c^e* lanceolate, sharply 
acuminate, concave. Pedicles about the length of the 
nectariferous tube, sometimes longer. Calyx 5-cleft, 
segments very long, lanceolate, acuminate, concave, 
erect. Nectariferous tube scarcely half the length of the 
calyx, flattened on both sides, slightly channelled. 
Corolla of 5 petals, the two uppermost widest, oblong, 
obtuse, of a dark rose colour, with a dark purple ob- 
long spot in the centre, which joins two dark purple 
streaks from the base, from which branch various other 
lines of a lighter colour, and between the streaks are 
3 white marks; three lower petals oblong, obtuse, of 
a dark rose colour. Filaments 10, 7 only bearing an- 
thers. Pollen orange-coloured. Style red, hairy be- 
low, and smooth above. Stigmas 5, reflexed. 
This fine plant comes nearest to P. angulosum. 
It is chiefly distinguished by the rigid nerves of its 
