The leaves of this Pelargonium are of a blueish green, kidney-shaped, lobed or crenate, velvety above, cottony and with very prominent nerves beneath, and they are on long stalks. There are two varieties, which are used by the […], one with rose purple flowers with a dark purple spot at the base of the two upper petals; the other with flowers of a dark port-wine colour.
The leaves when boiled yield a mucilage which is made use of to keep the air out of a wound, and also to prevent the eggs from being deposited, which produce maggots.
A colonial slur for Black South Africans appears twice in this passage, once as the label for the local plant name and once for the people who used the plant. Both are cut and marked […].