PELARGONIUM compactum.
Compact Stork’s-bill.
P. compactum, foliis cuneatis inciso-lobatis inaequaliter
dentatis rigidis utrinque hirsutis, stipulis brevibus
ovatis acutis pilosis ciliatis, umbellis 3-5-floris, pe-
talis apice reflexis, tubo nectarifero calyce villoso
subaequali, stylo hirsuto, caule ramosissimo, ramis
compactis.
Fair Maid of Perth. Capt. Francis Mss. catal.
A neat little bushy plant, very much branched, of a
hard woody texture at the base: branches rather crowded,
short, straight, thickly clothed with short white
hairs, and some longer ones intermixed. Leaves small,
rigid, about an inch long, and the same in breadth,
wedge-shaped, unequally cut and lobed, the lobes varying
in number on the different leaves, unequally toothed
with numerous small sharp rigid teeth, densely clothed
with short hairs on both sides, a little concave on the
upper side, underneath strongly veined. Petioles flattened
a little on the upper side and convex below,
thickly clothed with spreading unequal hairs, as are the
peduncles, pedicles, and calyx. Stipules small, ovate,
broad at the base, and tapering to a slender point, very
hairy and fringed. Umbels 3 to 5-flowered. Peduncles
cylindrical. Involucre of 6 or 7 narrowly ovate, taper-
pointed, villous bractes, that are more or less stained
with purple. Pedicles a little longer than the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft; the segments broadly lanceolate, acute,
keeled, villosely hairy, spreading, or the points somewhat
reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of
the calyx, flattened and furrowed on each side, and
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