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PELARGONIUM rhodopetalon. 
Rosy-petaled StorU s-bill. 
P. rhodopetalon, foliis cordatis 5-7-lobis undulatis carti- 
lagineo-grosse-dentatis glabriusculis margine et apice 
subrecurvis : lobis latis conduplicatis, stipulis cordato- 
ovatis acutis ciliatis, umbellis 4-£-floris, petalis infe- 
rioribus oblongis, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo longiore. 
Stem strong, frutescent, woody towards the base, much 
branched, forming a large handsome bush: branches more 
or less flexuose, thickly clothed wdth spreading hairs, that 
are unequal in length. Leaves broader than long, cordate, 
5 to 7-lobed, undulate, and toothed with large sharp car- 
tilaginous teeth, of a glossy green, but hairy on both sides, 
strongly and numerously nerved underneath, the nerves 
branching all over the leaf; margins and point more or 
less reflexed: lobes broad, conduplicate, or folding over 
each other. Petioles flattened on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, widened and thickened at the base, thickly 
clothed with spreading villous hairs, as are the peduncles, 
bractes, calyx, and nectariferous tube. Stipules cordately 
ovate, acute, fringed. Umbels 4 to 6-flowered. Peduncles 
cylindrical, more or less bent. Involucre of 6 small lan¬ 
ceolate, acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles longer than the 
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute, 
upper one largest and keeled, erect or slightly reflexed at 
the point; the points of all the others reflexed. Nectari¬ 
ferous tube double the length of the calyx, flattened on 
each side and tapering downwards, but gibbous at the base. 
Petals 5 , of a bright rosy colour, the .two upper ones 
obovate, very unequal sided, elegantly marked with nume¬ 
rous dark purple lines, that are much branched: lower 
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