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PELARGONIUM nubilum. 
Clouded StorJc’s-bill. 
P. nubilum, caule erecto villoso, foliis cordatis 5-7-lobis 
acutis planis denticulatis multinerviis, stipulis ovato- 
lanceolatis acuminatis ciliatis, umbellis plurifloris, tubo 
nectarifero calyce paulo breviore. 
Eob Roy. Hortulanorum. 
Stem frutescent, stout, erect, branching: branches thickly 
clothed with spreading villous hairs. Leaves flat, cordate, 
acute, slightly 5 to 7-iobed, toothed with numerous short 
sharp teeth, strongly and numerously nerved underneath, 
the nerves branched all over the leaf, thinly covered with 
hairs on both sides: upper leaves on the flower-stems ovate, 
scarcely lobed. Petioles flattened on the upper side and 
convex below, villosely hairy. Stipules lanceolate, or ovate- 
ly lanceolate, broad at the base, taper-pointed and fringed. 
Umbels several-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, villous, 
bent a little near the umbel. Involucre of 6 ovately lan¬ 
ceolate, fringed, villous bractes, shortly acuminate at the 
point. Pedicles a little longer than the bractes, villous. 
Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, taper-pointed, slight¬ 
ly villous and fringed, tinged with purple, the upper one 
broadest, all more or less reflexed at the points when in 
flower. Petals 5; the two upper ones obovate, unequal 
sided, blush-coloured, with a large dark patch in the centre, 
becoming gradually lighter on the outsides, veined with nu¬ 
merous purple veins, that are more or less branched and 
show through the dark patch: lower petals oblong, rounded 
at the points, blush, here and there stained with specks of 
purple. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing 
