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PELARGONIUM flaccidum. 
Flaccid-petaled StorJc’s-bill. 
P. flaccidum, foliis cordatis obsolete lobatis undulatis ar¬ 
gute dentatis utrinque hirsutis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis 
acuminatis, pedunculis quadrifloris, petalis flaccidis, 
tubo nectarifero calyce duplo breviore. 
Pelargonium flaccidum. Swt. hort. brit. addenda , p. 471. 
n. 406. 
Stem shrubby, upright, much branched: branches 
thickly clothed with long spreading villous hairs, as are the 
petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cordate, about half 
as broad again as long, scarcely lobed, the margins much 
undulate, and toothed with numerous sharp rigid, rather 
unequal teeth, hairy on both sides, underneath strongly 
nerved, the nerves much branched. Petioles flattened 
and furrowed on the upper side and convex on the lower, 
widened and thickened at the base. Stipules ovately- 
lanceolate, tapering to a long slender point, sometimes 
toothed, concave, villous and ciliate. Peduncles cylindri¬ 
cal, more or less crooked, generally 4-flowered. Involucre 
of 6 ovate, acute, concave bractes, which are villous and 
ciliate. Pedicles longer than the bractes, villous. Calyx 
5-cleft, segments unequal in size, with membranaceous 
margins, slightly reflexed, upper one broadest, and the two 
side ones narrowest. Nectariferous tube short, about 
half the length of the calyx, flat on each side, and thick at 
the base. Petals 5, flaccid, more or less recurved at the 
margins: two upper ones obovate, of a dark red, marked 
with several branching dark lines, lower ones of a light 
salmon colour, broadly ligulate. Filaments 10, united at 
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