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PELARGONIUM dsedaleum. 
Variable-coloured Stork's-bill. 
P. dcedaleum, foliis cordatis undulato-trilobis inaequaliter 
cartilagineo-dentatis utrinque hirsutis, stipulis ova- 
tis abrupte acutis, umbellis sub quadrifl oris, tubo 
nectarifero calyce subaequali, stylo hirsuto. 
Stem frutescent, erect, branched; branches thickly 
clothed with unequal spreading villous hairs. Leaves 
cordate, acute, folded inwards towards the base, shortly 
three-lobed, the leaf folded inwards where lobed, hairy 
on both sides, toothed with numerous sharp horny 
teeth, unequal in size. Petioles flattened a little, and 
slightly furrowed on the upper side, convex below, 
villosely hairy. Stipules broadly ovate, abruptly sharp- 
pointed, sometimes toothed. Umbels generally 4-flow- 
ered. Peduncles cylindrical, villous. Involucre of six 
broadly ovate bluntish bractes, terminated in a short 
mucrone, some of them toothed. Pedicles much longer 
than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft: the segments broadly 
lanceolate, acute, of a dark brown colour, the upper 
one largest. Nectariferous tube about the length of the 
calyx, much flattened on both sides, and knotted at 
the base. Petals 5, the two upper ones broadly obovate, 
rounded at the ends, tapering and unequal towards the 
base, of a rosy pink colour, with a large bright dark 
spot in the centre, and numerous dark purple branch¬ 
ing lines below it: lower ones of a rosy lilac, oblongly 
obovate, tapering to the base. Filaments 10, connected 
at the base, 7 bearing anthers : pollen orange-coloured. 
Style purple, hairy nearly all its length. Stigmas 5, 
revolute at the points. 
