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PELARGONIUM flabellifolium. 
Fan-leaved St or F s-bill. 
P . flabellifolium , ramis villosis, foliis reniformi-flabelli- 
formibus insequaliter argute dentatis multinerviis 
utrinque villoso-pilosis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis 
longe acuminatis villosis, umbellis subquadrifloris, 
segmentis calycinis acuminatis villosis, petalis om¬ 
nibus obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce dimidio bre- 
viore. 
Stem stout, erect, frutescent: branches erect, or 
spreading a little, thickly clothed with spreading shaggy 
hairs, as are the petioles, pedicles, bractes, and calyx 
Leaves large, fan-shaped, inclining to kidney-shaped, 
not cordate at the base; much broader than long; deeply 
toothed with numerous unequal sharp teeth, the longest 
reflexed a little at the points: thickly clothed on both 
sides with soft woolly hairs; underneath strongly ner¬ 
ved with numerous nerves from the base, that branch all 
over the leaf, and cause furrows on the upper side: 
upper leaves near the flowers, ovate, acute, tapering to¬ 
wards the base. Petioles flattened on the upper side and 
rounded below, widened a little at the base. Stipules 
ovate or ovately lanceolate, broad at the base, and ta¬ 
pering to a long slender point, villous. Flowers in a sort 
of panicle. Peduncles cylindrical, more or less bent. 
Umbels generally four-flowered. Involucre of 6 or 7 brac¬ 
tes, more or less connected: bractes broadly lanceolate, 
taper-pointed, generally keeled, villous. Pedicles very 
short, much shorter than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the 
