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PELARGONIUM latifolium. 
Broad-leaved Storh?s-bill. 
P. latifolium, foliis reniformibus carnosis planis grosse 
dentatis ciliatis utrinque subpilosis; superioribus 3-5- 
lobis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis ciliatis, umbellis multi- 
floris, calycibus reflexis, petalis omnibus obovatis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce parum breviore. 
Pelargonium latifolium. Swt. hart. brit. add.p. 471 . 428. 
Stem very stout, shrubby, branching; branches more 
or less spreading, thickly clothed with spreading villous 
white hairs, which are very unequal in length. Leaves kid¬ 
ney-form, succulent, nearly flat, or but slightly undulate, 
much broader than long; the largest about 7 inches broad, 
and 5 in length, scarcely lobed, but toothed with very large 
rigid teeth, clothed on both sides with shortish hairs, the 
margins ciliate, underneath many nerved, the nerves branch¬ 
ed : upper leaves with short footstalks, more deeply 5 or 
3-lobed, with longer and sharper teeth, the uppermost eu- 
neate at the base. Petioles more or less flattened on the 
upper side, and rounded on the lower, also thickly clothed 
with very unequal hairs. Stipules ovate, with long taper 
points, clothed with short hairs, and fringed with long vil¬ 
lous ones. Peduncles cylindrical, also thickly clothed w ith 
very unequal hairs, as are the bractes, pedicles, calyx, and 
nectariferous tube. Umbels 6 to 8-flow r ered. Involucre of 
several lanceolate, acute, keeled bractes. Pedicles about 
the length of, or a little longer than the bractes. Calyx 
5-cleft, segments very long, reflexed, the upper one largest, 
broadly lanceolate, the others unequal in size, and more re¬ 
flexed. Nectariferous tube a little shorter than the calyx, 
much flattened on each side, and gibbous at the base. Pe¬ 
tals 5, all obovate, the two upper ones broadest, and 
