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PELARGONIUM suffusum. 
Suffused Stork’s- bilL 
V. suffusum, ramis villoso-pilosis, foliis rotundo-cordatis 
obsolete quinquelobis undulatis acute dentatis utrin- 
que pilosis mollibus, stipulis ovatis acutis subden- 
tatis villoso-ciliatis, bracteis mucronatis, umbellis 
plurifloris, petalis omnibus obovatis, tubo necta- 
rifero brevissimo calyce villoso dimidio breviore. 
Weltje’s Isabella Geranium. Hortulanorum. 
Stem frutescent, erect, branching: branches thickly- 
clothed with soft spreading villous hairs, as are the pe¬ 
tioles, peduncles, bractes, and calyx. Leaves roundly 
cordate, very slightly 5-lobed, very much undulate, and 
toothed with numerous sharp but shortish teeth, that 
are unequal in length, strongly 3-nerved from the base, 
the nerves branching; very soft to the touch, being 
thickly clothed with short soft hairs on both sides. Pe¬ 
tioles flattened, and slightly furrowed on the upper side, 
convex underneath. Stipules ovate, tapering to a slender 
point, often sharply toothed, villous and fringed. Pe¬ 
duncles cylindrical, rather slender. Umbels several-flow¬ 
ered. Involucre of several bractes, connected into two 
or three sets at the base: bractes ovate, keeled, termi¬ 
nated by a sharp mucrone. Pedicles long and slender, 
villous. Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, sharp- 
pointed, erect, thickly clothed with white villous hairs. 
Nectariferous tube short, about half the length of the ca¬ 
lyx, flattened on each side, and gibbous at the base, 
villosely hairy. Petals 5, all obovate, of an elegant blush, 
