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PELARGONIUM Yeatmanianum. 
Miss Yeatmans Stork's-bill. 
P. Yeatmanianum, villoso-pilosus, foliis reniformibus ob¬ 
solete quinquelobis denticulatis mollibus, stipulis 
ovatis acutis, umbellis plurifloris, bracteis ovatis bre- 
viter acuminatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce paulo breviore, stylo inferne piloso. 
All over clothed with soft villous hairs. Stem erect, 
branched. Leaves kidney-shaped, slightly 5-lobed, and 
toothed with numerous very short rigid teeth; under¬ 
neath many-nerved, the nerves rigid and branching all 
over the leaf, clothed with short soft hairs on both sides, 
which makes them have a soft feel when touched: up¬ 
per ones rounder and scarcely lobed. Petioles flattened 
on the upper side, and convex below. Stipules ovate, 
or inclining to cordate, terminated in a short taper point. 
Umbels several-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, much 
thickened at the base. Involucre of several short ovate 
bractes, that terminate abruptly in a slender point. Pe¬ 
dicles about three times the length of the bractes, the 
upper part tinged with purple. Calyx 5-cleft, tinged 
with a brownish purple: segments lanceolate, acute, 
keeled; the upper one broadest, erect, the others re¬ 
flexed. Petals 5, all obovate; the two upper ones twice 
the breadth of the others, very slender at the base, un¬ 
equal-sided, of a pale purple, marked with a very large 
dark velvetty patch in the centre, below which and 
from it branch out some dark veins: lower petals lilac, 
also marked with a dark mark in the centre, and more 
or less veined. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 
7 bearing anthers: anthers before bursting pointed. 
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