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PELARGONIUM insculptum. 
Engraved-petaled Stork's-bill. 
p; insculptum, foliis cordato-reniformibus acutis argute 
insequaliter dentatis utrinque molliter pilosis: su- 
perioribus cuneatis sublobatis, stipulis ovatis villo- 
sis, umbellis multifloris, bracteis numerosis ovatis 
pedicellis longioribus, tubo nectarifero calyce villoso 
multo breviore, stylo subglabro. 
Stem strong, frutescent, somewhat crooked, branch¬ 
ing : branches thickly clothed with spreading white hairs, 
as are the petioles and peduncles. Leaves large, broader 
than long, cordately-reniform, acute, thickly clothed 
with soft woolly hairs on both sides, which gives them a 
soft feel like cloth, sharply toothed with numerous 
rigid horny teeth, that are very unequal in length, many 
nerved underneath, the nerves branched all over the 
leaf: upper leaves of a different form, from cordate, to 
cuneate and attenuated towards the base, lobed a little, 
and very sharply toothed. Petioles flattened and fur¬ 
rowed a little on, the upper side, and convex below. 
Stipules ovate, more or less acute, villous. Peduncles 
cylindrical, more or less bent. Umbels many-flowered, 
very close and crowded. Involucre of numerous, ovate, 
acute, keeled, villous bractes, imbricated over each 
other. Pedicles shorter than the bractes, villous. Calyx 
5-cleft, densely clothed with villous hairs, tinged with 
brown, the segments lanceolate, taper-pointed, all more 
or less twisted and reflexed. Nectariferous tube also 
villous, and much shorter than the calyx, much flat¬ 
tened on each side, of a pale brown colour. Petals 5, 
all obovate; the two upper ones broadest, very unequal- 
sided, of a reddish lilac, with a dark purple spot in 
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