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PELARGONIUM multiflorum. 
Numerous-flowered Stork’s-bill. 
P . multiflorum, caule fruticoso villoso; ramis numerosis 
patentibus, foliis cordatis obtuse lobatis crenato-dentatis 
utrinque hirsutis, stipulis ovatis acutis, umbellis multi- 
floris paniculatis, petalis obovato-cuneatis, tubo n$cta- 
rifero calyce subsequali. 
Pelargonium multiflorum. Swt. hart. brit. p. 78. n. 8 6. 
Colv. catal. edit. 3. p. 27. col. 1. 
Stem frutescent, branching, thickly clothed with une¬ 
qual hairs: branches numerous, spreading, rather slender, 
very hairy. Leaves cordate, obtuse, bluntly lobed, and 
notched with shallow round notches, hairy on both sides : 
upper leaves small, and not so obtuse. Petioles very hairy, 
a little flattened on the upper side and convex on the lower, 
a little thickened at the base. Stipules ovate, acute. Um¬ 
bels many-flowered, numerous, in a sort of panicle. Pe¬ 
duncles cylindrical, hairy. Involucre of 6 to 8 lanceolate, 
scarcely acute bractes, which are very hairy. Pedicles 
scarcely so long as the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments 
spreading, obtuse, very hairy. Nectariferous tube about 
the length of the calyx, flattened on each side, hairy. Pe- 
tals 5, obovately wedge-shaped, red, and lined with nume¬ 
rous lines, the upper petals largest, and the lines on them 
darkest and most numerous. Filaments 10 , united at the 
base, 7 bearing anthers, which in our specimens were all 
sterile. Style purple, hairy at the base and smooth up¬ 
wards. Stigmas 5, dark purple, reflexed. 
This is also a hybrid production, and was raised from 
seed in the superb collection of R. H. Jenkinson, Esq.: we 
