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PELARGONIUM lanosum. 
Wool-bearing Stork’s-bill. 
V. lanosum, villoso-pilosum, foliis cordatis acutis planis 
aut subreflexis villoso-tomentosis mollissimis argute 
cartilagineo-dentatis dentibus majoribus reflexis: 
superioribus subtrilobis cuneatisve, stipulis ovato- 
lanceolatis longe acuminatis, umbellis plurifloris, 
tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali, stylo ad medium 
hirsuto. 
Stem strong, frutescent, erect, not much branched ^. 
branches somewhat flexuose, thickly clothed with long, 
soft, woolly hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, brac- 
tes, and calyx. Leaves heart-shaped, acute, flat, or the 
points and sides recurved a little, densely clothed with 
soft woolly hairs, which makes them very soft to the 
touch, deeply and sharply toothed, the teeth rigid and 
cartilaginous, the largest hooked downwards or re¬ 
flexed, underneath strongly and numerously nerved, 
the nerves branched: upper leaves somewhat 3-lobed, 
those amongst the flowers cuneate, and attenuated to¬ 
wards the base. Petioles flattened on the upper side 
and convex below. Stipules lanceolate, or ovately lan¬ 
ceolate, tapering to a long slender point. Umbels 4 or 
5-flowered. Peduncles nearly cylindrical, sometimes a 
little flattened, swollen and somewhat transparent at 
the base. Involucre of 6 or 7 lanceolate, acute, villous 
bractes. Pedicles about the length of the bractes. Ca¬ 
lyx 5-cleft, of a purplish brown; the segments very 
long, lanceolate, tapering to a long slender point, keel¬ 
ed, the points somewhat reflexed, the upper one rather 
broadest and three-nerved. Nectariferous tube about the 
length of the calyx, much flattened on each side, and 
