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PELARGONIUM cordiforme. 
Heart-shaped Stork’s-bill. 
P. cordiforme , caule erecto ramoso, foliis cordato-ovatis 
acutis margine undulatis insequaliter lobatis grosse 
dentatis glabriusculis, stipulis ovatis acutis carinatis 
ciliatis, umbellis 4-5-floris, sepalis reflexis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce paulo breviore, stylo hirsutissimo. 
Stem frutescent, erect, much branched: branches 
erect, or but little spreading, thickly clothed with 
spreading unequal soft white hairs, as are the petioles, 
peduncles, pedicles, and calyx. Leaves heart-shaped, 
inclining to ovate, acute, undulate at the edges, un¬ 
equally lobed with short lobes, some leaves being 
scarcely at all lobed, toothed with numerous large teeth 
and some smaller ones intermixed, of a smoothish ap¬ 
pearance, though hairy on both sides, the hairs not 
being perceptible except held up to the light. Petioles 
slightly flattened, and furrowed a little on the upper 
side, convex below, dilated a little at the base. Stipules 
ovate, or somewhat cordate, tapering to a sharp point, 
keeled at the back, very hairy and fringed. Umbels 4 
to 5-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, thickened at the 
base. Involucre of 5 or 6 short, ovate, bluntish bractes, 
terminated with a sharp mucrone, sometimes toothed, 
and more or less connected from the base, villosely 
hairy. Pedicles about double the length of the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
upper one broadest, and generally erect, the others re¬ 
flexed, all more or less tinged with a brownish purple. 
Nectariferous tube scarcely so long as the calyx, much 
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