PELARGONIUM exornatum.
Adorned purple Stork’s-iill.
P. exornatum, villoso-pilosum, foliis rotundato-reniformi-
bus basi truncatis inaequaliter cartilagineo-denticulatis
multinerviis: nervis rigidis ramosissimis, stipulis lance-
olatis acutis, umbellis plurifloris, tubo nectarifero caly-
cis longitudine pedicellis multo breviore.
Pelargonium exornatum. Swt. hort. irit. p. 80. n. 146.
Smith’s Mount iEtna. Hortulanorum.
Every part of the plant, except the corolla, thickly clothed
with villous spreading hairs. Stem frutescent, much branched
: branches erect or more or less spreading, rather
flexuose. Leaves broader than long, roundly kidney-form,
truncate at the base, undulate at the margins, and toothed
with numerous unequal small rigid horny teeth ; underneath
strongly and many-nerved, the nerves rigid, and branched
all over the leaves. Petioles flattened and furrowed on the
upper side, and convex on the lower. Stipules short, broadly
lanceolate, acute. Umbels several-flowered. Peduncles
cylindrical, a little bent. Involucre of five to seven short,
lanceolate, acute bractes, which are dicles variable in width. Pe
long and slender, more or less bent, tinged with purplylex,
nearly twice the length of the nectariferous tube. Ca
5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute, more or less tinged
with purple, spreading, or sometimes slightly reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of the calyx, much
flattened, and tinged with purple. Petals 5, bright purple;
the two upper ones broadly obovate, very unequal sided, a
little crumpled, very narrow at the base, with a large dark
velvet patch in the centre, and numerous dark lines branching
nearly all over the petals: lower petals oblong, rounded
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