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PELARGONIUM Drake®. 
Mrs. Drakes Stork’s-bill. 
P. Drakece , foliis cordato-reniformibus3-5-lobisutrinque 
villosis mollissimis insequaliter acute dentatis: lobis 
divaricatis dilatatis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis sub- 
dentatis, umbellis subquadrifloris, petalis omnibus 
obovatis, tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali, stylo 
hirsuto. 
Stem frutescent, erect, branching, thickly clothed 
with spreading white hairs, very unequal in length. 
Leaves cordately kidney-formed, 3 to 5-lobed, villosely 
hairy on both sides, very soft to the touch, feeling like 
soft cloth, unequally toothed with sharp teeth, strongly 
and numerously nerved underneath, the nerves proceed¬ 
ing from the base, simple about half way up, the upper 
part branching: lobes deep, very broad and dilated at 
the ends, dark green on the upper side, and paler un¬ 
derneath. Petioles flattened and furrowed on the upper 
side, thickly clothed with long white unequal hairs, as 
are the peduncles, pedicles, and calyx. Stipules ovate 
or broadly lanceolate, taper-pointed, sometimes toothed, 
villosely hairy. Umbels generally 4-flowered. Pedun¬ 
cles cylindrical, erect. Involucre of 6 ovate, acute, vil¬ 
lous bractes. Pedicles about the length of the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft, tinged with purple, villousupper seg¬ 
ment broadest, ovately lanceolate, acute, erect; the 
others variable in size, some broadly, others narrowly 
lanceolate, acute, spreading at the points when the 
flowers are expanded. Petals 5, all obovate: the two 
upper ones much the broadest, slightly retuse at the 
points, tapering to the base, which is unequal-sided, 
