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PELARGONIUM foliosum. 
Many-leaved Storlcs-bill. 
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P. foliosum, caule erecto ramoso; ram is congestis multi- 
foliatis villosis, foliis reniformi-cordatis obsolete quin- 
quelobis acute dentatis utrinque pilosis, stipulis ovato- 
lanceolatis acutis ciliatis, umbellis 3-5-floris, calycibus 
reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali. 
Pelargonium foliosum. Swt. hort. brit. add.p. 47\.n. 433. 
Stem shrubby, erect, much branched: branches crowd¬ 
ed, and thickly clothed with leaves, villous. Leaves cor¬ 
date or kidney shaped, more or less rounded, very slightly 
5-lobed, undulate, and toothed with numerous short sharp 
teeth, hairy on both sides, numerously nerved underneath, 
the nerves much branched. Petioles flattened on the upper 
side and rounded on the lower, thickly clothed with une¬ 
qual spreading villous hairs, as are the peduncles, bractes, 
and calyx. Stipules ovately lanceolate, acute, fringed. Pe¬ 
duncles cylindrical, more or less bent, 3 to 5-flowered. In¬ 
volucre of 6 or 7 short, ovately lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
keeled bractes. Pedicles longer than the bractes, bent up¬ 
wards. Calyx 5-cleft, of a dark brown colour; segments 
lanceolate, acute, the upper one broadest, all reflexed. Nec¬ 
tariferous tube about the length of the calyx, much flat¬ 
tened on each side, villous. Petals 5, the two upper ones 
broadest, obovate, the inner side as if cut away towards the 
base, of a bright lilac, stained with red, and a large dark 
patch in the centre; from which, and the base, are nume¬ 
rous lines that branch all over the petals: lower ones obo- 
vately ovate, of rather a lighter colour, strongly 2-nerved 
underneath, the nerves branched near the base. Filaments 
10, connected at the base, 7 bearing perfect anthers: pollen 
