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PELARGONIUM eriosepalon. 
Woolly-calyxed Stork's-bill. 
P. eriosepalon , villoso-pilosum, fbliis cordatis acutis 3-5- 
lobis rigidis inaequaliter acute dentatis, stipulis ovatis 
acutis ciliatis, umbellis quadrifloris, calycibus villosis 
reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce subduplo breviore. 
Stem frutescent, much branched: branches short, erect, 
thickly clothed with long villous hairs, as is every other 
part of the plant, except the petals. Leaves small, rigid, 
cordate, acute, concave, 3 to 5-lobed, the lobes acute, and 
toothed with numerous unequal small homy sharp teeth, 
strongly nerved underneath, the nerves much branched. 
Petioles flattened on the upper side and convex on the 
lower. Stipules ovate, acute, fringed with long woolly 
hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, 4-flowered. Involucre of 
6 lanceolate, acute bractes, often connected into two or 
three sets at the base. Pedicles generally longer than the 
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, villous, the segments long, lanceo¬ 
late, acute, the upper one broadest, erect or slightly reflex¬ 
ed at the points, the others all reflexed. Petals 5, the two 
upper ones broadly obovate, unequal-sided, of a bright lilac, 
with a large velvetty patch in the centre, which covers 
nearly half the petal, below that are several dark purple 
lines; lower petals oblong, rounded at the points, pale 
lilac. Filaments 10 , united at the base; 7 bearing anthers. 
Style purple, hairy at the base, and smooth upwards. Stig¬ 
mas 5, purple, the points revolute. 
This very pretty little plant is also of hybrid origin, and 
was raised from the seed of P. limonium, in the collection 
of Sir C. H, Rich, Bart, of Beenham-house, Reading, who 
