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PELARGONIUM Loudonianum. 
Mr, Loudon's Stork’s-bill. 
P. Loudonianum > caule erecto fruticoso carnoso, foliis cor- 
datis acutis cucullatis multilobis inaequaliter dcntatis 
glabriusculis; lobis rectis acutis, stipulis ovato-lanceo- 
latis acutis ciliatis, umbellis multifloris, tubo nectarifero 
brevi calyce 2-3-plo breviore. 
Stem frutescent, short and stout, succulent, erect, thick¬ 
ly clothed with spreading white hairs. Leaves a little sue* 
culent, rather crowded, cordate, acute, cucullate or hollow 
on the upper side, many-lobed, appearing smooth till exa¬ 
mined with a lens, which shows that they are thickly clo¬ 
thed with very short hairs on both sides, longest on the 
veins, unequally but rather thinly toothed with large rigid 
teeth that are abruptly acute, fringed round the margins 
with short hairs, underneath strongly and numerously ner¬ 
ved, the nerves branching all over the leaf: lobes straight 
and acute, also hollow on the upper side. Petioles thick 
and succulent, rigid, flattened and furrowed a little on the 
upper side, convex below, a little widened at the base, clo¬ 
thed with spreading white hairs. Stipules ovately or broadly 
lanceolate, acute, fringed, attached to the base of the peti¬ 
oles. Umbels many-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, swol¬ 
len at the base, thickly clothed with spreading white hairs. 
Involucre of 6 lanceolate, acute, fringed, hairy bractes. 
Pedicles longer than the bractes, also clothed with spread¬ 
ing white hairs, as are the calyx and nectariferous tube. 
Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, acute, keeled. 
Nectariferous tube short, but unequal in length, much 
flattened on both sides and gibbous at the base, two or three 
times shorter than the calyx. Petals 5, of a dark blood 
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