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PELARGONIUM coilophyllum. 
Hollow-leaved Stork’s-bill. 
P. coilophyllum , ramis flexuosis pubescentibus, foliis cor- 
datis acutis concavo-cucullatis rigidis undulatis sub- 
septemlobis argute cartilagineo-dentatis glabriuscu- 
lis: dentibus ciliatis, stipulis cordato-ovatis acumi- 
natis ciliatis, umbellis multifloris, tubo nectarifero 
calyce subsequali. 
Childe Harold Geranium. Hortulanorum. 
Stem frutescent, rather succulent, clothed with a 
close dense pubescence, tinged with purple: branches 
a little flexuose, thickly clothed with a short pubescence 
and a few longer hairs intermixed. Leaves cordate, acute, 
hollow or concave, the margins bent a little inwards, 
broader than long when spread out, very rigid, gene¬ 
rally 7-lobed, and deeply toothed with sharp horny 
teeth that are fringed with short hairs, of a bright glossy 
green, but clothed with a short pubescence on both 
sides, this wears off the old leaves, they then become 
nearly smooth, underneath strongly 3-nerved from the 
base, the nerves rigid and much branched : upper leaves 
scarcely lobed. Petioles flat on the upper side, and 
slightly furrowed, convex on the lower one, widened 
and thickened at the base, clothed with a short pubes¬ 
cence and numerous short hairs. Stipules broad, cor- 
dately ovate, fringed, and tapering rather abruptly to a 
slender point. Umbels many-flowered. Peduncles cylin¬ 
drical, more or less bent, swollen at the base, clothed 
with short down, and longer, spreading, unequal hairs 
intermixed. Involucre of 6 to 8 bractes, that are ovate, 
acute, fringed, and pubescent. Pedicles longer than the 
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