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PELARGONIUM malachrsefolium. 
Malachra-leaved StorP s-bill. 
P. malachrcefolium, foliis cordato-reniformibus subquin- 
quelobis undulatis dentatis utrinque villoso-pilosis, sti- 
pulis lacero-dentatis, umbellis plurifloris, tubo nectari- 
fero calyce subaequali. 
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Stem strong, frutescent, erect, much branched: bran¬ 
ches erect or slightly spreading, thickly clothed with soft 
woolly hairs, that are very unequal in length. Leaves very 
large, broader than long, between cordate and reniform, 
slightly 5-lobed, rugged and undulate, toothed with nu¬ 
merous bluntish teeth that are terminated by a short rigid 
horny mucro, villosely hairy on both sides, strongly and 
numerously nerved underneath; the nerves branched: up¬ 
per leaves more deeply lobed, those next to the flowers cu- 
neate, and sharply toothed. Petioles flat on the upper 
side and convex on the lower, broadest at the base, thickly 
clothed with unequal woolly hairs. Stipules ovately lan¬ 
ceolate, acute, generally deeply divided or more or less 
toothed, fringed with long spreading hairs. Peduncles 
cylindrical, more or less bent. Umbels 5 or 6-flowered. 
Involucre of 6 or 7 bractes, that are ovate, concave, villous 
and fringed, and terminated by a sharp reddish brown mucro. 
Pedicles longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments 
lanceolate, acute, villosely hairy, of a brownish purple, spread¬ 
ing, or sometimes slightly reflexed at the point. Necta¬ 
riferous tube about the length of the calyx, much flattened 
on each side, and gibbous at the base, of a purplish brown 
colour. Petals 5, the two upper ones obovate, unequal¬ 
sided, of a purplish red, with a dark velvetty patch in the 
centre, below which are numerous dark branching lines, 
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