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PELARGONIUM porphyreon. 
Bright purple Stork’s-bill. 
V. porphyreon, foliis inferioribus cordato-reniformibus 
subquinquelobis undulatis ineequaliter dentatis utrin- 
quehirsutis: superioribus subrotundis aut basi at- 
tenuatis argute dentatis, stipulis ovatisobliquis apice 
acuminatis subdentatis, involucro basi connato: 
bracteis ovatis cuspidatis, calycibus reflexis, tubo 
nectarifero calyce subsequali, stylo glaberrimo. 
Stem stout, frutescent, erect* more or less branched: 
branches thickly clothed with long spreading white hairs, 
and numerous smaller ones intermixed. Leaves variable* 
hairy on both sides, unequally toothed, strongly and 
numerously nerved underneath, the nerves much branch¬ 
ed : lower ones very large, nearly 6 inches broad, and 4 
and a half long, scarcely acute, slightly 5-lobed, undu¬ 
late, and toothed with numerous shortish, rigid teeth* 
that are very unequal in length : upper leaves rounded, 
or some of them attenuated towards the base, more 
sharply toothed with longer teeth. Petioles stout, flat¬ 
tened and slightly furrowed on the upper side, and con¬ 
vex below, very hairy. Stipules ovate, unequal-sided, 
tapering to a long slender point, more or less toothed or 
sometimes entire, clothed with long woolly hairs, and 
fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, clothed with unequal 
spreading hairs. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre con¬ 
nected at the base, forming a sort of cup, the bractes 
ovate, terminated in a sharp point, keeled, villosely 
hairy, and fringed. Pedicles villous, scarcely so long as 
the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, 
acute, of a purplish brown, villosely hairy, more or less 
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