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PELARGONIUM opulifolium. 
Guelder-rose- leaved Stork's- bill. 
P. opulifolium, pedunculis slibquadrifloris, foliis cor- 
datis cucullatis quinquelobis ineequaliter dentatis 
glabris, stipulis cordatis acuminatis, caule glabro, 
tubo nectarifero calyce parum longiori. 
Stem shrubby, erect, with few branches, of a shin- 
ing brown colour. Branches glossy, green, thickly 
covered with unequal hairs. Leaves wider than long, 
cordate, concave, 5-lobed, unequally toothed, smooth 
and green, not glaucous, slightly hairy. Petioles long 
and slender, shghtly flattened on the upper side and 
convex below, thickly clothed with straight unequal 
hairs. Stipules large, broadly cordate, acuminate, 
keeled, entire. Peduncles cylindrical, generally 4- 
flowered. Involucre of 6 bractes, often joined at the 
base; &rac^e.y ovate, keeled and taper-pointed. Pedicles 
bending upwards, very hairy. Cali/x 5-cleft, upper 
segment erect, broadly lanceolate, 3-nerved, the others 
spreading or slightly reflexed, very unequal, lanceolate, 
acuminate, all of a dark brown colour. Nectariferous 
tube a little bent, flat and channelled on both sides 
and gibbous at the base, of the same colour as the 
calyx. Petals 5, the 2 uppermost very broad, nearly 
orbicular, and oblique at the base, of a pale rose- 
colour, with a white mark near the base, and from it 
branch short purple and faint red lines, lower petals 
narrowly oval, of rather a lighter colour. Filaments 
10, united at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Pollen 
orange-coloured. Germen villous. Aristae spiral, very 
hairy and bearded inwards. Style red, hairy below and 
smooth on the upper part. Stigmas 5, red, reflexed. 
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