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PELARGONIUM cuneiflorum. 
TVedge-petaled Storh's-bill. 
P. cuneiflorum, foliis cordatis rugosis profunde lobatis 
utrinque pilosis: lobis lato-ovatis rotundato-obtusis 
subimbricatis obtuse dentatis, stipulis lanceolatis mar- 
gine reflexis, umbellis multifloris, petalis cuneatis, tubo 
nectarifero subsessili calyce subaequaii. 
Pelargonium cuneiflorum. Swt. Jiort. brit. addenda. 
Stem shrubby, stout, much branched : branches thickly 
Clothed with spreading villous hairs, as are the petioles, 
peduncles, bractes, and calyx. Leaves very large, broader 
than long, deeply lobed, rugose and rough, hairy on both 
sides, of a dark green colour, strongly and numerously 
nerved underneath, the small nerves reticulately branched: 
large leaves 7 or 9-lobed, the lobes lapping over each 
other, or scarcely distinct, very broad, ovate, bluntly round¬ 
ed, and toothed with short rounded teeth: smaller leaves 
3 to 5-lobed, more undulate, the lobes distinctly spreading. 
Petioles much flattened on the upper side, and convex on 
the lower. Stipules broadly lanceolate, acute, the mar¬ 
gins folded back, sometimes toothed. Peduncles cylin¬ 
drical. Umbels capitate, many-flowered. Involucre of 
6 or 7 lanceolate, acute bractes, all connected at the base. 
Pedicles very short, or altogether wanting. Calyx 5-cleft, 
segments lanceolate, acute, the upper one largest, all re¬ 
flexed. Petals 5 , all cuneate, the two upper ones broad¬ 
est, of a bright scarlet, with a dark velvetty patch in the 
centre, below which are numerous dark purple stripes reti¬ 
culately branched, strongly two-nerved at the back, each 
nerve forked : lower petals of a lighter colour, three-nerved 
at the back. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bear¬ 
ing anthers, which are always sterile in the specimens we 
