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PELARGONIUM obtusidentatum. 
Blunt-toothed Stork's-hill. 
P. obtusidentatum , foliis cordatis multilobis cucullatis 
undulatis obtuse dentatis molliter tomentosis, lobis 
patentibus dilatatis imbricatis, stipulis ovatis acu- 
minatis, umbellis multifloris, tubo nectarifero calyce 
subsequali, stylo hirsutissimo. 
Stem strong, frutescent, erect, branched: branches 
thickly clothed with a short tomentum, and numerous 
unequal longer hairs intermixed. Leaves cordate, scarcely 
acute, many-lobed, hollow on the upper side, more or 
less undulate, and deeply toothed with numerous large 
blunt teeth, clothed on both sides with a short soft to¬ 
mentum, and some longer hairs intermixed, so as to 
have a slightly canescent appearance : lobes broad and 
dilated at the points,imbricate or plaited over each other, 
sometimes quite crowded. Petioles nearly round, very 
little flattened on the upper side, clothed with woolly 
hairs. Stipules broadly ovate, some approaching to cor¬ 
date, broad at the base, and tapering to a slender point, 
villous, and fringed at the edges. Umbels from 8 to 10- 
flowered. Peduncles rather long, cylindrical, hairy, and 
tomentose. Involucre of 6 lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
keeled, villous bractes. Pedicles in general a little lon¬ 
ger than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, villous ; the seg¬ 
ments lanceolate, acute; the upper one broadest, erect; 
the others reflexed at the points. Nectariferous tube 
about the length of the calyx, flattened on each side, 
and gibbous at the base. Petals 5 ; the two upper ones 
more than twice the size of the lower ones, obovate, a 
little unequal sided towards the base, of a bright scarlet, 
