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PELARGONIUM dilatatum. 
Dilated-leaved Stork's-bill. 
P. dilatatum , ramis villosis, foliis cordatis basi dilatatis 
sinuato-lobatis inaequaliter dentatis scabris utrinque 
pilosis, stipulis oblongis acutis basi dilatatis dentatis ci- 
liatis, umbellis multifloris, calycibus reflexis, tubo nec- 
tarifero brevissimo calyce duplo breviori. 
Pelargonium dilatatum Swt. hort. brit. addenda. 
Stem shrubby, very stout, growing to a great size, 
branched: branches thickly clothed with long spreading 
unequal villous hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and 
calyx. Leaves flat, cordate, very much dilated at the base, 
much broader than long, sinuately lobed, unequally and often 
doubly toothed, very rough on the upper side, occasioned 
by numerous minute tubercles, with which the surface of the 
leaf is covered; hairy on both side£, and fringed with short 
hairs, underneath strongly and numerously nerved, the nerves 
much branched : lobes spreading, broad at the base, with 
acute points. Petioles flattened and furrowed on the upper 
side, and convex on the lower. Stipules oblong, or oblongly 
ovate, broad at the base, with sharp points, more or less 
sharply toothed and fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, nod¬ 
ding before the flowers expand, then becoming erect. In¬ 
volucre of several lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes, which 
are more or less toothed. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceo¬ 
late, acute, the upper one broadest, erect, the others re- 
flexed, more or less of a brownish purple colour. Nectari¬ 
ferous tube very short, scarcely half the length of the calyx, 
gibbous at the base. Petals 5, obovate; the two upper ones 
broadest, a little oblique at the base, of a bright lilac, with 
a dark spot in the centre, below which are numerous dark 
lines, strongly two-nerved at the back, upper part of the 
nerves branching: lower petals lilac, also strongly 2-nerved 
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