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PELARGONIUM psilophyllum. 
Smooth-leaved Stork's-bill. 
P. psilophyllum , ramis adultis glabris nitidis, foliis renifor- 
mi-cordatis planis obsolete lobatis cartilagineo-dentatis 
glabris: junioribus margine subpilosis, stipulis cordatis 
acuminatis, umbellis plurifloris, petalis obovatis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce breviore. 
Lodoiska. Hortulanorum. 
Stem frutescent, erect: branches rather succulent, 
when young hairy, but the hairs soon wear off, they are 
then smooth and glossy, and tinged with purple. Leaves 
broader than long, reniformly cordate, scarcely lobed, 
rounded, flat, or slightly undulate, smooth and glossy, 
sharply toothed with unequal, brown, horny teeth: young 
ones more undulate, and hairy at the edges. Petioles flat¬ 
tened and slightly furrowed on the upper side, and rounded 
on the lower, tinged with purple, and slightly hairy. Sti¬ 
pules cordate, taper-pointed and fringed, more or less keeled. 
Umbels several flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, slightly 
hairy. Involucre of 6 or 7 bractes, which are broad at the 
base, and taper to a long slender sharp point, fringed at 
the margins. Pedicles scarcely as long as the bractes. 
Calyoc 5-cleft, the segments broadly lanceolate, acute. Pe¬ 
tals 5, obovate, the two upper ones broadest and darkest, 
of a reddish lilac, with a dark patch in the centre, and 
several dark lines from the base, more or less branched: 
lower ones of a pale lilac. Filaments 10 , united at the 
base, 7 bearing anthers: pollen orange-coloured. Style 
purple, longer than the stamens. Stigmas 5, purple, re¬ 
flexed or revolute. 
