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PELARGONIUM megalanthum. 
Grand-flowered Stork' s-bill. 
P. megalanthum, , foliis rotundato-reniformibus undulatis 
acute dentatis glabriusculis: nervis subtus pilosis, sti- 
pulis ovatis acutis subdentatis ciliatis, umbellis 4-5-flo- 
ris, petalis imbricatis, tubo nectarifero calyce reflexo 
duplo breviore. 
A strong growing erect bushy plant; branches a little 
flexuose, thickly clothed with unequal spreading long white 
hairs. Leaves large, roundly reniform or kidney-shaped, 
not lobed, or the upper ones very slightly so, very much 
undulate, and toothed with numerous sharp teeth, that are 
terminated in rigid yellowish horny points, smoothish and 
glossy on the upper side, but thinly clothed with spreading 
slender hairs, strongly nerved underneath, the nerves thickly 
clothed with hairs, margins fringed with spreading hairs : 
upper leaves narrower, inclining to ovate, rather cuneate at 
the base, slightly lobed, and terminated by a sharp mucro. 
Petioles flattened and slightly furrowed on the upper side, 
and rounded on the lower, dilated at the base, clothed with 
unequal spreading hairs. Stipules ovate, acute, often tooth¬ 
ed, much veined, and fringed with long hairs. Umbels 4 or 
5-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less bent, very 
hairy. Involucre of six very broad, ovate bractes, that are 
terminated by a sharp mucro, and fringed with long hairs. 
Pedicles long and slender, villosely hairy. Calyx 5-cleft, 
the segments long, lanceolate, taper-pointed, villosely hairy, 
tinged with purple, upper one largest, when in flower the 
points of all reflexed. Petals 5, very large and broad, 
obovately ovate, a little uneven at the points, but scarcely 
crenulate: two upper ones rather largest, a little unequal 
sided, of a purplish pink, with a white patch from the base, 
