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PELARGONIUM lasiocaulon. 
Yillous-stalked Stork?s-bill. 
P. lasiocaulon, villosissimum, foliis cordatis acutis sublo- 
batis inaequaliter acute dentatis margine undulatis, um- 
bellis subpaniculatis multifloris, bracteis lato-ovatis obo- 
vatisve, calycibus lanceolatis acuminatis, tubo nectari- 
fero calyce parum breviore. j 
Stem frutescent, branching, thickly clothed with long 
spreading soft woolly hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, 
stipules, involucrum, and calyx. Leaves broadly cordate, 
acute, slightly lobed, undulate "at the margins, and toothed 
with numerous shortish sharp teeth, which are very variable 
in size, clothed on both sides with short woolly hairs, which 
makes it very soft to the touch, strongly and numerously 
nerved underneath, the nerves much branched, and furrow¬ 
ed on the upper side of the leaf. Stipules broad, upper ones 
cordately ovate, obtuse or acute, sometimes toothed. Um¬ 
bels numerous, in a sort of panicle, many-flowered. Pe¬ 
duncles nearly cylindrical, more or less bent. Involucre of 
several broad ovate or obovate rounded bractes, terminated 
in a short sharp point. Pedicles scarcely so long as the brac¬ 
tes. Calyos 5-cleft, the segments very long, erect, or slightly 
spreading, lanceolate, taper-pointed. Nectariferous tube 
scarcely as long as the calyx, very broad, gibbous at the 
base. Petals 5, of a pale blush, two upper ones broadest, 
obovate, with a dark reddish purple spot in the centre, be¬ 
low which are several lines that are slightly branched, lower 
ones oblong, rounded at the points, which are a little uneven, 
but scarcely crenulate, underneath strongly 2-nerved, each 
nerve trifid. Stamens 10, connected at the base, 7 only 
bearing anthers. Style purple, smooth its whole length. 
ottgmas 5, purple, revolute. 
