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PELARGONIUM Couttsi^. 
Mrs. Couttss Stork's-bill. 
P. CouttsicB, foliis cordatis subtriiobis undulatis inaequali- 
ter et rigide dentatis pubescentibus, umbellis plurifloris, 
calycibus reflexis, petalis inferioribus obovato-oblongis 
undulatis, tubo nectarifero calyce parum longiore. 
Pelargonium Couttsiae. Swt. hort. hrit. p. — . n. 293. 
Stem shrubby, erect, not much branched. Leaves 
cordate, generally 3-lobed, more or less undulate, rather 
succulent, and of a greasy appearance, rather rough fo the 
touch, unequally toothed with numerous sharp rigid teeth, 
of a bright green on the upper side and paler underneath, 
strongly 3-nerved from the base, the nerves more or less 
branched. Petioles flattened on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, thickly clothed with unequal, spreading, 
long, soft hairs, as are the peduncles, bractes, and calyx. 
Stipules lanceolate, acute, broad at the base. Umbels 
several-flowered. Peduncle cylindrical. Involucre of 6 
to 9 bractes, which are imbricate, ovate, acute, concave, 
and fringed. Pedicles more than double the length of the 
bractes, hairy. Calyx 5-cleft, upper segment ovate, acute, 
erect, the others unequal, oblong or lanceolate, reflexed. 
Petals 5, the 2 upper ones oblongly-obovate, oblique at 
the base, a little rugged, of a red salmon colour, with a 
purple spot in the centre more or less conspicuous, or 
sometimes wanting, and from it to the base is a large white 
stripe, from which branch several dark purple stripes, and 
also some across it : lower petals oblong, inclining to obo- 
vate^ much undulate, strongly veined, of a lighter colour. 
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