PELARGONIUM Beaufortianum.
Duchess of Beaufort s Stork’s-bill.
P. Beaufortianum, umbellis subquinquefloris, foliis sub-
quinquelobis dentato-mucronatis basi truncatis:
floralibus cuneatis, tubo nectarifero calyce duplo
longiori.
Pelargonium Beaufortianum. Pers. syn. 2. p. 231.
Hort. sub. Bond. p. 152. n. 113.
Geranium Beaufortise. Andrews s geran. c. ie.
Stem shrubby, erect, branching; branches clothed
with short unequal pellucid hairs, as are the petioles,
peduncles, and calyx. Leaves rigid, smoothish, more
or less lobed, lower ones truncate at the base, 5-lobed,
sharply and very unequally toothed, many-nerved, and
clothed on both sides with short transparent hairs;
upper ones cuneate, entire or rarely toothed, mucro-
nate. Petioles flattened and furrowed on the upper
side and convex on the lower, a little widened at the
base. Stipules cordately lanceolate, taper-pointed and
fringed. Peduncles cylindrical, a little swollen upwards,
3 to 5-flowered. Involucre of 5 or 6 widely
lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes. Pedicles about
three times the length of the bractes, bent upwards.
Caly x 5-cleft, upper segment largest, acute, erect, the
others lanceolate, reflexed. Nectariferous tube widely
flattened and furrowed on each side, about twice the
length of the calyx. Petals 5, the two upper ones
roundly obovate, oblique at the base, of a bright lilac,
marked with numerous i’ed and purple lines, which
branch in various directions; lower petals obovate, of
rather a lighter colour. Filaments 10, united at the
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