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PELARGONIUM obovatum. 
Obovate-leaved StorFs-bill. 
P. obovatum , foliis late cuneatis trilobis rotundato-obtusis 
planis inaequaliter dentatis utrinque pilosis: lobis sub- 
lobatis rotundatis, stipulis lanceolatis basi dilatatis, um- 
bellis multifloris, petalis omnibus obovatis, tubo necta- 
rifero brevissimo calyce triplo breviore. 
Stem frutescent, branching : branches erect, or a little 
spreading, thickly clothed with unequal spreading villous 
hairs. Leaves broader than long, broadly wedge-shaped, 
three-lobed, irregularly toothed with numerous shortish 
teeth, which are scarcely acute, hairy on both sides, the 
upper side rough, underneath strongly nerved, the nerves 
branched; lobes slightly lobed, rounded. Petioles a little 
flattened and furrowed on the upper side, and convex on 
the lower, thickly clothed with unequal villous hairs, as are 
the peduncles, pedicles, and calyx. Stipules broadly lan¬ 
ceolate, acute, broad at the base, villous, and fringed. Pe¬ 
duncles stout, cylindrical. Umbels many-flowered. Invo¬ 
lucre of 6 to 8 lanceolate, acute, villous bractes. Pedicles 
longer than the bractes, nodding before the flowers expan¬ 
sion, and erect when in bloom. Calyoe 5-cleft, the segments 
very long, lanceolate, taper-pointed, erect. Nectariferous 
tube short, broadly flattened, scarcely one third the length 
of the calyx. Petals 5, all broadly obovate; the two upper 
ones broadest, unequal sided, of a bluish lilac, with a dark 
purple patch in the centre, and numerous dark purple lines 
Irom the base, which branch all over the petals, strongly 
2-nerved at the back, with a hollow between the nerves: 
lower petals of a lighter lilac, strongly veined from the base 
with several bluish purple veins. Filaments 10, connected 
at the base, 7 bearing anthers, which are generally imper- 
