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PELARGONIUM pullaceum. 
Dark brown Stork’s-bill. 
P. pullaceum, foliis cordato-ovatis acutiusculis subquin- 
quelobis dentatis utrinque pilosis, stipulis ovato- 
lanceolatis acutis, umbellis 3-5-floris, pedicellis 
bracteis longioribus, calycibus reflexis, tubo necta* 
rifero ealyce subaequali, stylo utrinque hirsuto. 
A pretty little dwarf bushy plant: branches erect, 
rather slender, thickly clothed with unequal woolly 
hairs. Leaves cordately ovate, rather acute, a little 
hollow on the upper side, unequally 5 or 7-lobed, the 
upper ones only 3-lobed, unequally jagged, and toothed 
with unequal teeth, clothed with short hairs on both 
sides : lobes distinct, spreading. Petioles flattened and 
furrowed a little on the upper side, convex below, a 
little dilated at the base, thickly clothed with villous 
hairs. Stipules ovately lanceolate, broad at the base, 
tapering to a slender point, villous and fringed. Um¬ 
bels 3 to 5-flowered. Peduncles cylindrical, thickly 
clothed with unequal soft hairs. Involucre of 6 bractes, 
that are lanceolate, acute, villous, spreading, or the 
points slightly reflexed. Pedicles longer than the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft; the segments lanceolate, acute, villosely 
hairy, all reflexed, the upper ones nearly double the 
size of the others. Nectariferous tube about the length 
of the calyx, flattened on each side, and gibbous at the 
base. Petals 5 ; the two upper ones obovate, unequal 
sided, and attenuated towards the base, of a dark 
brown colour, striped with rather darker lines: lower 
ones ligulate, of an orangy red, marked from the base 
with several dark lines. Filaments 10, connected at the 
