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PELARGONIUM acetabulosum. 
Saucer-leaved Stork’s-bill. 
P. acetabulosum , foliis cordato-reniformibus subquinque- 
lobis subcucullatis undulatis rigidis inaequaliter den- 
tatis utrinque hirsutis: margine subincurvis, stipulis 
ovatisacutiscartilagineo-dentatisvilloso-ciliatis, um- 
bellis plurifloris, petalis obovatis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce subaequali. 
Stem frutescent, much branched: branches spread¬ 
ing, thiekly clothed with long unequal villous hairs. 
leaves mmform., or cordate, or between both, slightly 5-lo- 
bed, generally broader than long, rather acute, rigid, 
undulate, hollow, with the margins turned up and bent 
inwards a little, very unequally toothed, with sharp car¬ 
tilaginous teeth, densely clothed on both sides, and 
fringed with short hairs, underneath strongly 3-nerved, 
the nerves much branched. Petioles much flattened, 
and furrowed on the upper side, convex on the lower, 
thickly clothed with spreading hairs, as are the pedun¬ 
cles, bractes, and calyx. Stipules ovate, acute, generally 
toothed, villous, and fringed. Umbels generally 5 or 6- 
flowered. Peduncles cylindrical. Involucre of from 6 to 
8 bractes, more or less connected: bractes lanceolate, 
acute, keeled. Pedicles about double the length of the 
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute, 
tinged with brown: upper one^largest, erect, the others 
spreading, or their points reflexed. Nectariferous tube 
rather variable in length, much flattened at the sides 
and gibbous at the base, generally about the length of 
the calyx. Petals 5, all obovate, the two upper ones lar¬ 
gest, unequal-sided, of a red salmon colour, with a dark 
