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PELARGONIUM coarctatum. 
Close-leaved Stork' s-bill. 
P. coarctatum, umbellis plurifloris solitariis, foliis cor- 
dato-reniformibus leviter quinquelobis undulatis 
denticulatis coarctatis, caule humili, ramis brevibus 
confertis, tubo nectarifero calyce parum breviori. 
Pelargonium coarctatum. Noh. in Colv. Cat. p. 21. 
col. 3. 
Lavalette's Geranium. Hortulanorum. 
Stem shrubby, very much branched. Branches very 
short and crowded together, thickly clothed with soft 
white hairs. Leaves numerous, crowded, cordate or 
kidney-shaped, slightly 5-lobed, undulate, unequally 
toothed with short rigid teeth, hairy on both sides. 
Petioles widely flattened and channelled on the upper 
side and convex on the lower, thickly clothed with 
short hairs, and some long ones interspersed amongst 
them. Stipules cordate, with an acute point, keeled, 
and ciliate. Peduncles solitary, 4 to 6 flowered, thickly 
clothed with soft unequal hairs. Involucre of 6 or 7 
bractes ; trades oval, concave, taper-pointed, fringed, 
and covered with soft villous hairs. Pedicles about the 
length of the nectariferous tube. Cali/x 5-cleft, seg- 
ments unequal, of a brown colour, upper one ovate, 
many-nerved, erect or slightly recurved, the others 
lanceolate, acute, reflexed. Nectariferous tube a little 
shorter than the calyx, slightly flattened on each side, 
haiiy, and of a brown colour. Petals 5, the two up- 
permost widest, roundly ovate, of a dark reddish 
purple, marked at the base with black lines, which 
