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PELARGONIUM Laconia}. 
Lady Lacon’s StorPs-bill. 
P. Laconia , foliis reniformibus obsolete trilobis rotundatis 
subundulatis rigide dentatis ciliatis utrinque hirsute, 
stipulis ovatis acutis, umbellis multifloris, tubo necta- 
rifero calyce erecto paullo breviore. 
Stem frutescent, erect, branched: branches thickly 
clothed with spreading villous hairs, which are very unequal 
in length. Leaves kidney-shaped, broader than long, flat 
or a little undulate, rounded at the points, sometimes 
slightly 3-lobed, toothed with large rigid teeth, fringed, 
and clothed on both sides with short hairs, upper side of a 
dark green, underneath rather paler, and strongly nerved, 
each nerve triply-nerved, and branching. Petioles broadly 
flattened on the upper side, and convex on the lower, vil- 
losely hairy, as are the peduncles and calyx. Stipules 
ovate, acute. Umbels 5 to 10-flowered. Involucre of 6 
ovate, acute, villous bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments 
broadly lanceolate, taper-pointed, erect, densely villous. 
Nectariferous tube shorter than the calyx, flat on each 
side, and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two upper 
ones obovate, unequal sided, of a bright scarlet, with a 
large velvetty patch in the centre, below which are nume¬ 
rous dark lines, that spread nearly all over the petals, 
strongly 2-nerved at the back, the nerves much branched ; 
lower petals oblong, rounded, of a lighter colour, also 
strongly 2-nerved at the back. Filaments 10, connected 
at the base, 7 bearing anthers, which have always been 
imperfect in our specimens. Germen densely tomentose. 
Style purple, hairy about three parts its length, the upper 
part smooth. Stigmas 5, dark purple, reflexed. 
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