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PELARGONIUM comptum. 
Decked Stork s-bill. 
P. comptum, caule erecto carnoso ramoso pubescente, foliis 
rotundato-reniformibus obsolete lobatis crenato-denta- 
tis : supra glabris subpubescentibus subtus tomentosis, 
stipulis acuminatis subpersistentibus, umbellis multi- 
floris subpaniculatis, tubo nectarifero calyce quadruplo 
longiore. 
Pelargonium comptum. Swt. hort. hit. p. — . n. 59, 
inedit. 
Stem shrubby, erect, branched, succulent, clothed with 
a hard brown bark, pubescent. Leaves kidney-shaped, 
rounded, slightly lobed, unequally and rather deeply notched, 
with blunt rounded teeth, of a glossy green, but slightly 
pubescent on the upper side, and tomentose underneath. 
Petioles slender, nearly cylindrical, swollen at the base, 
thickly clothed with short villous hairs. Stipules narrowly 
lanceolate, taper-pointed, villous, hardening into a sort of 
spine, and continuing for a considerable time. Flower- 
stem paniculately branched, thickly clothed with long 
spreading villous hairs and short down intermixed. Pe- 
duncles villous. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre of 
6 or 7 lanceolate, acute, villous bractes. Pedicles very 
short, often wanting. Calyx 5-cleft, villous, segments un- 
equal, the back one ovate or broadly lanceolate, blunt, 
concave, erect, the others narrower, reflexed. Nectarife- 
rous tube slender, about 4 times the length of the calyx, 
thickly clothed with unequal, soft, villous hairs. Petals 5, 
nearly obcordate ; the upper ones very little larger than the 
others, of a bright pink, light at the base, and a dark 
