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PELARGONIUM Glorianum. 
Queen of Portugal's Stork's-bill. 
P. Glorianum, foliis cordatis profunde 7-lobis crenato- 
denticulatis undulatis utrinque hirsutis: lobis latis 
rotundato-obtusis basi imbricatis, stipulis ovatis 
acuminatis, umbellis capitatis multifloris congestis, 
petalis cuneatis, tubo nectarifero calyce villoso sub- 
sequali, stylo hirsuto. 
Stem frutescent, branching: branches densely clothed 
with unequal white villous hairs, as are the petioles, pe¬ 
duncles, bractes, and calyx. Leaves very large,dark green, 
some of them five inches and a half long, and the same 
in breadth, cordate at the base, 7 to 9-lobed, rounded 
at the end, scarcely toothed but shallowly notched, undu¬ 
late, thickly clothed on both sides with short hairs: lobes 
overlapping each other at the base, and some of them 
their whole length, broad, and rounded at the ends, more 
or less undulate, or sometimes flat. Petioles flattened 
a little on the upper side and rounded below. Stipules 
ovate or oblong, broad at the base, taper-pointed, frin¬ 
ged. Umbels many-flowered, in a close compact head. 
Peduncles stout, cylindrical. Involucre of several brac- 
tes, some ovate, others lanceolate, acute, fringed. Pe¬ 
dicles very short, scarcely any. Calyx 5-cleft; the seg¬ 
ments unequal in size, some broadly lanceolate, others 
linear, acute, spreading, or reflexed when the flowers 
are expanded. Nectariferous tube about the length of 
the calyx, flattened on each side, villosely hairy. Petals 
5, wedge-shaped, of a purplish red; the two upper ones 
broadest, very unequal sided, attenuated to the base, 
marked with a faint brown spot in the centre, and nu¬ 
merous short dark lines between it and the base, strongly 
