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PELARGONIUM platanifolium. 
Plane-tree-leaved StorJc's-bill. 
P. platanifolium , foliis cordatis quinquelobis argute ser- 
ratis pustuloso-punctatis nitidis; lobis patentibus inciso- 
lobatis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subdentatis 
ciliatis, umbellis 3-5-floris, petalis omnibus obovatis 
crenulatis, tubo nectarifero calyce sesquilongiore. 
Pelargonium platanifolium. Suit. hort. brit. addenda. 
Stem shrubby, of strong growth, branching; branches 
more or less flexuose, thickly clothed with very small white 
hairs, and a few longer ones intermixed. Leaves cordate, 
acute, 5-lobed, sharply and deeply serrate, the teeth tipped 
with a small horny gland, dotted all over with numerous 
minute tubercles, very slightly hairy, of a glossy green co¬ 
lour, margins ciliated, underneath strongly and numerously 
nerved, the nerves branching in all directions, and hairy: 
lobes jagged or lobed, spreading, a little undulate. Petioles 
flattened on the upper side and convex on the lower, clothed 
with unequal spreading hairs. Stipules ovately lanceolate, 
taper-pointed, fringed, and sometimes toothed. Peduncles 
3 to 5-flowered, a little compressed, also clothed with un¬ 
equal spreading hairs. Involucre of 6 or 7 lanceolate, acute, 
keeled and fringed bractes. Pedicles longer than the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft, of a dark brown, with reddish margins, seg¬ 
ments very long, lanceolate, taper-pointed, all more or less 
reflexed, and sometimes twisted, or revolute. Nectarife¬ 
rous tube large, about half as long again as the calyx, flat¬ 
tened on each side, and gibbous at the base, clothed with 
short stiff hairs. Petals 5, spreading, all obovate and cre- 
nulate, about as long again as the segments of the calyx, 
the two upper ones broadest, very unequal sided, of a 
