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PELARGONIUM pavoninum. 
Peacock' spotted Stork^s-hilL 
P. pavoninum, pedunculis plurifloris, foliis cordato-cu- 
neatis quinquelobis rigidis duplicato-dentatis; mar- 
ginibus crispis incurvis, petiolis apice valde dilatatis 
margine inflexis conniventibus. 
Pelargonium pavoninum. Supra No. 30. 
Stem shrubby, branching. Branches spreading, 
thickly clothed with soft white unequal hairs. Leaves 
wedge-shaped at the base, inclining to cordate, folded 
into a kind of tube where joined to the petiole, rigid, 
doubly toothed with large stiff cartilaginous teeth, ge- 
nerally brown at the points, densely pubescent on both 
sides, and strongly nerved underneath. Petioles much 
flattened and slightly furrowed on the upper and con- 
vex on the lower side; dilated at the upper part, where 
the margins turn in so as to form a tube, thickly co- 
vered with long white hairs. Stipules ovate with an 
acute point, sometimes toothed, slightly keeled and 
ciliate. Peduncles from 3 to 7 flowered, thickly co- 
vered with soft white unequal hairs. Involucre of 6 or 
7 bractes; hractes lanceolate, acuminate, concave, 
strongly keeled, sometimes toothed, very hairy. Pe- 
dicles about the length of the calyx, bending upwards. 
Calyx 5-cleft, segments unequal, lanceolate, acute, 
villous. Nectariferous tube unequal in length, gene- 
rally about the length of the calyx, flattened on both 
sides and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, two upper- 
most widely obovate, of a bright red or pale scarlet, 
with a beautiful dark velvet spot in the centre, and 
several dark lines from the base, which are slightly 
