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PELARGONIUM multinerve. 
Many-nerved Stork^s-bill. 
P. multinerve, iimbellis plurifloiis, foliis orbiculato- 
reniformibus undulato-lobatis insequaliter dentatis 
multinerviis, stipulis cordatis obliquis acuminatis; 
caule villoso; tubo nectarifero longitiidine calycis. 
Pelargonium splendidum. Hortulanorum. 
Stem shrubby, upright, not much branched : branches 
thickly covered with soft villous hairs. Leaves of a 
roundish kidney-shape, very much undulated, scarcely 
lobed, unequally toothed, and covered on both sides 
with soft downy hairs; upper side deeply furrowed with 
numerous channels, occasioned by the number of nerves 
on the under side: nerves prominent, 5 main ones pro- 
ceeding from the base, from which numerous others 
branch in every direction. Petioles thick, slightly 
channelled on the upper side, and a little compressed 
on the lower, thickly covered with soft down. Stipules 
cordate, oblique, taper-pointed, very downy. Pe- 
duncles several flowered. Involucre of 4 or 6 unequal 
ovate concave bractes. Pedicles short, about the 
length of the nectariferous tube. Calyx 5-cleft, seg- 
ments widely lanceolate, very downy. Nectariferous 
tube about the length of the calyx. Petals 5, the 2 
uppermost roundly ovate, of a fine purple colour with 
a dark spot in the centre, underneath which they are 
marked with white, with a few dark marks across, and 
branching from it: loiver petals oblong, obtuse, rose- 
coloured. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 only 
bearing anthers. Pollen orange-coloured. Style hairy, 
purple. Stigmas 5, reflexed. 
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