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PELARGONIUM iconicum. 
Figured Stork*s-bill. 
P. iconicum , villoso-hirsutum, foliis cordatis subquin- 
quelobis grosse dentatis, stipulis ovatis acutis, pe- 
dunculis 3-5-floris, petalis reticulato-venosis : supe- 
rioribus cuneatis basi inrequalibus: inferioribus 
spatulato-cuneatis, tubo nectarifero calyce subse- 
quali aut paulo breviore. 
Stem frutescent, branching : branches rather length¬ 
ened, thickly clothed with spreading villous hairs. 
Leaves cordate, generally 5-lobed, and toothed with 
large sharp rigid teeth, strongly nerved on the under¬ 
side. Petioles stout, widened at the base, channelled 
on the upper side, villosely hairy. Stipules broadly 
ovate, acute, sometimes toothed, fringed. Umbels op¬ 
posite to the leaf, from three to five-flowered. Pedun¬ 
cles cylindrical, thickened a little near the base, villous. 
Involucre of 5 or 6 oblong lanceolate, acute bractes, 
more or less connected at the base, villosely hairy. 
Pedicles short. Calyx 5-cleft, the upper segment broad¬ 
est, erect, the others spreading or reflexed, villous. 
Nectariferous tube scarcely so long as the calyx, flat¬ 
tened on both sides and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, 
spreading, scarlet; the two upper ones broadly wedge- 
shaped, oblique at the base, marked with innumerable 
dark lines which branch in all directions, towards the 
base is a white mark: lower petals narrower, also 
wedge-shaped, but tapering to the base, marked with 
two or three longitudinal dark veins, which branch out 
on both sides. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 
bearing anthers : pollen orange-coloured. Style purple. 
