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PELARGONIUM viridifolium. 
Bright green-leaved Storh? s-bill. 
P. viridifolium , foliis cordato-ovatis acutis undulatis ru- 
gosis subquinquelobis argute dentatis rigidis glabrius- 
culis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis acutis ciliatis, umbellis 
laxis plurifloris, floribus pedicellatis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce reflexo sesquilongiore. 
Stem fruticose, branching; branches more or less 
flexuose, thickly clothed with spreading unequal villous 
hairs. Leaves cordately ovate, acute, shortly 5-lobed, 
sharply but unequally toothed, smooth or but slightly pu¬ 
bescent, underneath strongly and numerously nerved, of a 
dark green colour. Petioles short, much flattened, and 
furrowed on the upper side, and rounded on the lower, 
thickly clothed with very short hairs, and a few longer 
ones intermixed. Stipules ovately lanceolate, acute, fringed. 
Peduncles cylindrical, clothed thickly with very unequal 
hairs, some very short, and longer ones intermixed. In¬ 
volucre of 6 or 7 broadly lanceolate acute fringed bractes. 
Pedicles longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, hairy, 
the upper segment about double the breadth of the others, 
broadly lanceolate, keeled, upright, or the point slightly 
reflexed, the others narrowly lanceolate, acute, woolly 
within and without, with white fringed margins, reflexed 
or revolute. Petals 5, spreading, two upper ones obovate, 
of a light salmon colour, with a white mark down the cen¬ 
tre, and striped with numerous purple lines, that become 
very light at the points and are slightly branched, strongly 
two-nerved at the back, the nerves forked and branching : 
lower petals oblong, with rounded points, of a lighter co¬ 
lour, 4-nerved at the back. Filaments 10, connected at 
the base, 7 bearing anthers. Style pale coloured, slightly 
