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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 crowd¬ 
ed, 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 vary¬ 
ing 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 flat¬ 
tened 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 some¬ 
what reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of 
the calyx, flattened and furrowed on each side, and 
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