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PELARGONIUM Speculum. 
Looking-glass spotted Stork's-bill. 
P. Speculum, foliis rotundo-reniformibus subcucullatis 
insequaliter dentatis: superioribus subquinquelobis, 
stipulis ovatis acuminatis, pedicellis bracteis paulo 
longioribus, umbellis plurifloris, petalis omnibus 
obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce breviore, stylo 
hirsute. 
Stem frutescent, stout, erect, not much branched: 
branches thickly clothed with long, spreading, unequal, 
villous hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, and calyx. 
Leaves large, broader than long, dark green, of a round 
kidney shape, more or less hollow on the upper side, 
clothed with short hairs on both sides, and toothed with 
broad unequal teeth, numerously nerved underneath, 
the nerves much branched: lower ones scarcely lobed: 
the upper ones more or less 5-lobed, more acute, and 
toothed with sharper teeth. Petioles flattened on the 
upper side and rounded on the lower, widened a little 
at the base. Stipules ovate, taper-pointed, fringed with 
long hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, thickened at the base. 
Umbels several-flowered. Lnvolucre of 6 ovate, acute, 
villous bractes. Pedicles a little longer than the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft: the segments long, lanceolate, taper- 
pointed, tinged with a purplish brown, the upper one 
erect, the others more or less reflexed. Nectariferous 
tube unequal in length, scarcely so long as the calyx. 
Petals 5, all obovate : the two upper ones broadest, 
very much attenuated towards the base, and unequal¬ 
sided, of a bright red, with a dark velvetty spot in the 
