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PELARGONIUM Arronianum. 
Avron’s Stortis-bill. 
P. Avronianum^ subcaulescens, radice tuberoso, foliis tri- 
partitis pinnatifidisve obtusis dentatis villosis : segmen - 
tis lateralibus oblongo-lanceolatis integris aut subdivisis; 
terminali maximo oblongo-ovato inciso-dentato, urn- 
bellis multifloris paniculato-ramosis, tubo nectarifero 
calyce sesquilongiore. 
Pelargonium Avronianum. Swt. hort. brit. p. 77. n. 10- 
Colv. catal. ed. 3. p. 27* col. 1. 
Root tuberous. Stem short and succulent, or scarcely 
any. Leaves deeply 3-parted or rarely ternate, sometimes 
pinnatifid, seldom entire, bluntish, and bluntly toothed, vil¬ 
lous : lower segments spreading, oblong or lanceolate, en¬ 
tire or rarely subdivided; terminal one much larger, ob¬ 
long or ovate, unequally cut or toothed. Petioles flattened 
on the upper side and convex on the lower, widened at the 
base. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, acute, fringed, joined 
to the base of the petioles. Scape paniculately branched, 
leafy at the base of the peduncles, thickly clothed with long 
villous hairs, as are the peduncles, bractes, and calyx. Pe¬ 
duncles cylindrical, spreading. Umbels many-flowered. In¬ 
volucre of numerous narrowly lanceolate, acute bractes. 
Pedicles shorter than the bractes. Calyon 5-cleft, segments 
lanceolate, acute, upper one erect, the others reflexed. 
Nectariferous tube about half as long again as the calyx, 
flattened on each side, and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, 
of a bright scarlet, the 2 upper ones broadest, oblongly li- 
gulate, with a dark velvetty spot in the centre, and nume¬ 
rous dark lines from the base, that branch all over the 
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