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PELARGONIUM poculifolium. 
Cup-leaved Stork’ s-bill. 
P. poculifolium, foliis rotundo-reniformibus cucullatis 
insequaliter denticulatis basi subimbricatis utrinque 
pilosis mollissimis, stipulis lato-ovatis subdentatis 
acutis, umbellis multifloris, petalis superioribus re- 
flexis, calycibus villosis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
dimidio breviore. 
Stem strong, frutescent, much branched: branches 
thickly clothed with spreading unequal villous hairs. 
Leaves large, broader than long, nearly round, or some¬ 
times kidney-shaped, generally overlapping or imbri¬ 
cate at the base, hollow or cup-shaped, toothed with 
shortish unequal sharp teeth, clothed on both sides with 
soft hairs, which occasions it to feel very soft, strongly 
nerved underneath, the nerves branching. Petioles 
broadly flattened, and slightly furrowed on the upper 
side, and convex on the lower, a little widened at the 
base, villosely hairy. Stipules broad, cordately ovate, 
abruptly acute, generally toothed, very hairy and frin¬ 
ged. Peduncles axillary or opposite to a leaf, slightly 
angular, villous. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre of 
numerous cordate or cordately-ovate bractes, that are 
keeled and abruptly acute, villous. Pedicles about twice 
the length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, tinged with a 
brownish purple, clothed with long shaggy hairs ; seg¬ 
ments broadly lanceolate, acute, spreading when the 
flower is expanded, or the points slightly reflexed, up¬ 
per one largest. Petals 5, the two upper ones broadest, 
obovate, rather unequal-sided, of a pale red purple, 
marked from the base upwards with numerous darker 
lines that are branched and run into each other, marked 
