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PELARGONIUM heteromallum. 
Soft woolly Stork’s-bill. 
P. heteromallum , caule erecto villoso-tomentoso, foliis 
cordato-reniformibus obsolete 5-7-lobis insequaliter 
obtuse dentatis mucronatis utrinque villoso-tomen- 
tosis mollissimis, stipulis ovatis carinatis breviter 
acuminatis, umbellis plurifloris, tubo nectarifero ca- 
lyce multo breviore. 
Pelargonium heteromallum. Swt. hort. brit.p. 79. n. 107. 
Colv. catal. edit. 3. p. 27. col. 2. 
Stem frutescent, erect, thickly clothed with villous 
hairs, and short down underneath; branches erect, ra¬ 
ther flexuose, thickly clothed with villous unequal hairs. 
Leaves cordately reniform, scarcely acute, nearly flat, 
or slightly undulate, shortly lobed with 5 to 7 lobes, and 
toothed with unequal, broad, obtuse teeth, that termi¬ 
nate in a very short point or mucrone, densely clothed 
on both sides with a short pubescence and villous hairs 
intermixed, which occasions it to feel very soft, very si¬ 
milar to the feel of soft velvet; margins fringed with 
short hairs: underneath strongly 3-nerved from the base, 
the nerves much branched. Petioles flattened on the up¬ 
per side, and convex on the lower, widened and thick¬ 
ened a little at the base, densely clothed with short woolly 
down, and long spreading hairs intermixed. Stipules 
ovate, terminated abruptly into an acuminate point, 
densely villous and fringed. Umbels several-flowered. 
Peduncles villosely hairy, as are the bractes, pedicles, 
calyx, and nectariferous tube. Involucre of 6 or 7 broadly 
lanceolate, keeled bractes, that are terminated with a 
short sharp point, or mucrone. Pedicles longer than the 
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, acute; 
