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PELARGONIUM sphaerocephalon. 
Round-headed Stortis-hill. 
P. sphcerocephalon, foliis cordatis sinuato-lobatis obtuse 
dentatis undulatis utrinque pilosis, stipulis ovatis acutis 
subdentatis eiliatis, umbellis capitatis confertis multi- 
floris, involucro monophylio: segmentis numerosis ob- 
longis eiliatis, petalis cuneatis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
subaequali v. paulo longiore. 
Stem shrubby, much branched: branches thickly clothed 
with long spreading unequal villous hairs. Leaves cordate, 
oblong, very much undulate, sinuately lobed, or lower ones 
nearly pinnatifid, rather shallowly toothed with bluntly 
rounded teeth, very hairy on both sides, the margins fringed: 
lower leaves 9 or 11-lobed; lobes generally overlapping 
each other, but sometimes distinct, all bluntly rounded: 
upper leaves 5-lobed, the lobes more distinct, and shal¬ 
lower. Petioles a little flattened on the upper side, and 
rounded on the lower; villosely hairy, as are the peduncles 
and calyx. Stipules ovate, acute; the margins reflexed, 
sometimes toothed, villous, and fringed. Peduncles stout, 
cylindrical. Umbels many-flowered; from 9 to 14-flowered 
in our specimens, in a close compact round head. Involucre 
of one leaf, divided into numerous oblong or lanceolate, 
villous, acute segments. Calyx 5-cleft, segments erect, lan¬ 
ceolate, acute, concave, more or less keeled. Petals 5, 
cuneate, strongly 2-nerved, the two upper ones broadest, 
very unequal sided, the points slightly notched, of a bright 
orangy scarlet, with a velvetty patch in the centre, below 
which there are numerous dark lines, more or less branched; 
below the dark spot, and betwixt the two nerves, is a sharp 
keel on the upper side, and a pit on the under one: lower 
petals narrower, of rather a lighter colour; the two nerves 
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