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PELARGONIUM exornatum. 
Adorned purple Stork’s-bill. 
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. hrit. p. 80. n. 14 6. 
Smith’s Mount JEtna. Hortulanorum. 
Every part of the plant, except the corolla, thickly clothed 
with villous spreading hairs. Stem frutescent, much bran¬ 
ched : 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 m any-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 variable in width. Pe¬ 
dicles long and slender, more or less bent, tinged with pur¬ 
ple, nearly twice the length of the nectariferous tube. Ca¬ 
lyx 5-cleft, the segments lanceolate, acute, more or less tin¬ 
ged 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 branch¬ 
ing nearly all over the petals : lower petals oblong, rounded 
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