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PELARGONIUM calamistratum. 
Curled-lobed Stork’s-bill. 
P. calamistratum , villosissimum, foliis cordatis basi di- 
latatis 7-9-lobis obtusis crenatis rugosis: lobis latis 
rotundato-obtusis conduplicatis undulato-crispis, sti- 
pulis ovatis acuminatis undulatis subdentatis mar- 
gine recurvis, umbellis multifloris, petalis superi- 
oribus cuneatis retusis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
sequali. 
Stem stout, upright, frutescent, not much branched, 
thickly clothed with spreading villous white hairs, as is 
every other part of the plant except the corolla. Leaves 
large, cordate, obtuse, 5 inches and a half broad to 4 
inches long, 7 to 9-lobed, rugged, very soft to the touch, 
owing to the numerous soft villous hairs with which they 
are clothed, shallowly notched at the margin with broad 
rounded notches, of a dark green colour: lobes large and 
deep, very broad and rounded, folded over each other 
and crowded from their breadth, hollow on the upper 
side, at length becoming nearly flat, curled at the mar¬ 
gins, and fringed with white hairs. Petioles furrowed 
on the upper side, convex or rounded on the lower. 
Stipules ovate, taper-pointed, undulate, generally tooth¬ 
ed, recurved at the margins. Petioles long, cylindrical, 
swollen at the base. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre 
of 6 to 8 bractes, some ovate, others lanceolate, acute, 
villous, and fringed. Pedicles unequal in length, but 
longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lan¬ 
ceolate, keeled; upper one broadest, erect, the others 
spreading or a little reflexed, the two nearest the upper 
one obtuse. Petals 5, bright purple, the two upper ones 
broadest, obovately wedge-shaped, slightly retuse. 
