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PELARGONIUM staphy sagroides. 
Stavesacre- leaved Stork's-bill. 
P. staphysagroides, caule fruticoso subramoso, ramis fo- 
liis calycibusque villoso-pilosis, foliis cordatis villo- 
sis mollissimis profunde 3-5-lobis acutis: inferiori- 
bus 5-lobis rigidis; lobis divaricatis oblongis inae- 
qualitersinuato-dentatis: superioribus trilobis; lobis 
ovatis subintegerrimis, umbellis multifloris panicu- 
latis, petalis apice incisis, stylo undique piloso. 
Stem frutescent, stout, erect, of a woody texture, 
clothed with rough brown bark, producing but few 
branches; every part of the plant thickly clothed with 
soft woolly hairs. Leaves variable, very soft to the 
touch, slightly cordate, deeply 3 or 5-lobed, the lobes 
divaricately spreading, strongly nerved underneath, 
with numerous rigid branching nerves; lobes acute: 
lower leaves deeply 5-lobed, or rarely 6-lobed, some¬ 
what cucullate on the upper side, the margins folded 
inwards; lobes oblong, sinuately and unequally tooth¬ 
ed, those higher up the stem entire: upper leaves deeply 
3-lobed, the lobes broader, ovate, and generally entire. 
Petioles much flattened on the upper side, convex below, 
dilated a little at the base. Stipules lanceolate, the 
lower ones very long, and attenuated to a long slender 
point. Umbels many-flowered, in a terminal panicle.. 
Peduncles short, cylindrical. Involucre of several brac- 
tes, that are broad at the base, and terminate in a long 
slender point. Pedicles about the length of the bractes. 
Calyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, tapering to a 
long slender point, spreading when the flower is ex¬ 
panded, upper one tinged with brown, the others green. 
