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PELARGONIUM recurvifolium. 
Recurved-leaved StorJc’s-bill. 
P. recurvifolium, ramis flexuosis villosis, foliis eordatis 
acutis lobatis undulatis inaequaliter cartilagineo-denta- 
tis punctato-scabris utrinque pilosis: marginibus et 
apice recurvis, stipulis cordato-ovatis ciliatis, umbellis 
plurifloris, tubo nectarifero calyce subsequali aut parum 
longiore. 
Pelargonium recurvifolium. Swt. kort. brit. addenda, 
p. 471. n. 431. 
Stem shrubby, branching: branches flexuose, thickly 
clothed with long spreading very unequal villous hairs, as 
are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cordate, acute, 
more or less deeply 5 to 9-lobed, and toothed with very un¬ 
equal sharp rigid teeth, hairy on both sides, and very rough, 
occasioned by numerous small tubercles with which the 
surface of the leaves are covered, margins and point undu¬ 
late and recurved, underneath strongly and numerously 
nerved. Petioles flattened on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, widened at the base. Stipules eordately ovate, 
blunt, but terminated by a sharp mucrone, fringed. Pe¬ 
duncles long, cylindrical, more or less bent. Umbels seve¬ 
ral flowered. Involucre of 6 short, ovate, blunt bractes. 
Pedicles unequal in length, but longer than the bractes. 
Calyoc 5-cleft, segments broadly lanceolate, acute, spread¬ 
ing. Nectariferous tube about the length of or a little lon¬ 
ger than the calyx, flattened on each side, and gibbous at 
the base. Petals 5 , obovate, the two upper ones broadest, 
very unequal sided, the edges crenulate, white, with a large 
dark purple spot in the centre, below which are numerous 
dark purple lines, some of which are slightly branched: 
