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PELARGONIUM abutiloides. 
Abutilon-leaved StorJc s-bill. 
P. abutiloides , foliis cordatis acutis 7-9-lobis denticulatis 
rubro-marginatis molliter pubescentibus multinerviis, 
lobis acutis mucronatis, stipulis cordato-ovatis acutis, 
pedunculis plurifloris paniculatis, petalis inferioribus 
linearibus acutis, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo bre- 
viore. 
Stem erect, frutescent, clothed with a hard brown 
streaked bark, hairy, and branched: branches slightly 
flexuose, thickly clothed with unequal spreading white hairs. 
Leaves cordate, acute, flat, or sometimes a little cucullate 
towards the base; toothed with short reddish brown horny 
teeth, the margins also of a reddish brown, clothed with 
short hairs on both sides, very soft to the touch; upper side 
of a glossy green: underneath clothed with a short close 
down that gives a whitish appearance, strongly nerved with 
numerous nerves, that branch all over the leaves, and ter¬ 
minate in small veins like net-work; lobes divaricately 
spreading, oblong, rather acute, mucronate, or the terminal 
tooth longest. Petioles long, a little flattened, slightly 
furrowed on the upper side, and convex on the lower, a 
little widened at the base, clothed with unequal spreading 
hairs, and short down underneath. Stipules broad, cor- 
dately ovate, hairy and fringed, keeled at the back. Umbels 
5 to 8-flowered, in terminal panicles. Peduncles cylindri¬ 
cal, hairy. Involucre of 6 broadly lanceolate, acute, keeled 
bractes, that are hairy and fringed. Pedicles longer than 
the nectariferous tube, the upper part purple, hairy. Calyx 
5-cleft, the segments erect or spreading, lanceolate, taper- 
pointed, strongly nerved, villosely hairy, more or less pur¬ 
ple, the upper segment largest and of the deepest purple. 
