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PELARGONIUM acutidentatunou 
Acute-toothed Stork’s-bill. 
P. acutidentatum , foliis cordatis acutis 5-7-lobis acute 
inaequaliter dentatis glabriusculis: dentibus denti- 
culato-ciliatis, stipulis lanceolatis longe acuminatis 
ciliatis, umbellis plurifloris, laciniis calycinis longis- 
sime lanceolatis acutis tubo nectarifero longioribus. 
Stem frutescent, erect, clothed with a glossy brown 
bark: branches erect, or slightly spreading, somewhat 
flexuose, thinly clothed with spreading hairs that are 
very unequal in length. Leaves cordate, acute, broader 
than long, slightly undulate, 5 to 7-lobed, and toothed 
with numerous very unequal sharp rigid teeth, strongly 
3-nerved from the base underneath, the nerves again 
3-nerved, and branching all over the leaf, of a bright 
green, nearly smooth, but thinly clothed with a few 
short hairs on both sides, that are most abundant on the 
nerves and veins; lobes acute, slightly recurved at the 
points; the teeth fringed with stiff tooth-like hairs. Pe- 
tioles flattened on the upper side and convex below, 
broad and thickened at the base, clothed with very un¬ 
equal spreading hairs. Stipules lanceolate, tapering to a 
long slender point, andfringed. Umbels several-flowered. 
Peduncles long, and rather slender, slightly angular, 
clothed with unequal hairs. Involucre of 6 lanceolate, 
taper-pointed, keeled bractes, that are fringed at the 
edges, and terminated at the points with long hairs. 
Pedicles long and slender, hairy. Calyx 5-cleft, the seg¬ 
ments very long, lanceolate, acute, thickly clothed with 
spreading hairs, and woolly at the edges, nearly double 
