310 CISTINEE. 
cled ; pedicels filiform, and are as well as calyxes hairy. 
Native of the North of Africa. 
1. p. 420. t. 108. 
Many-flowered Sun-Rose. Fl. June, July. Shrub 1 foot. 
88 H. cıxe reum (Pers. ench. 2. p. 76.) stem suffruticose, 
erect, branched ; branches opposite, hoary ; leaves ovate, acute, 
tapering into the footstalk, densely-tomentose, and cinereously- 
hoary, without stipulas; upper leaves stipulate ; racemes pani- 
cled, axillary opposite, or terminal in threes; calyxes hispid. 
h. F. Native of Spain. Cistus cinèreus, Cav. icon. 2. p. 33. 
t. 141. Flowers small. Petals entire. 
Var. (3, Lagascànum (D. C. prod. 1. p. 278.) stems slender ; 
calyxes less hairy than in var, a. Lag. in litt. 
Grey-leaved Sun-Rose. Fl. June, July. Clt.? Sh. 1 foot. 
89 it. PILOSELLOI DES (D. C. prod. 1. p. 284.) suffruticose, 
without stipulas; leaves elongately-elliptic, obtuse on long 
footstalks, upper surface green, under surface hoary-tomentose, 
both sides hairy; flowers in panicles. h.H. Native of the 
Pyrenees on rocks exposed to the sun. Cistus piloselloides, 
Lapeyr. abr. 301. Flowers yellow. 
Pilosella-like Sun-Rose. Shrub. 
90 H. sauamma'‘tum (Pers. ench. 2. p. 78.) stem suffruticose ; 
branches long, erect, rather woody,’ silvery, leprous; leaves 
stalked, oblong, obtuse, leprously-silvery, stipulate ; stipulas 
small, sessile, acute, marcescent ; racemes axillary, solitary, and in 
threes terminal ; pedicels approximate, secund, bracteate at the 
base ; bracteas marcescent ; calyxes leprous. kh. F. Native 
of Spain and Barbary. Cistus squammatus, Lin. spec. 743. 
Cav. icon. 2. t. 139. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 416.—Barrel. icon. rar. t. 
328. bad. Branches 4-angled at the base. Plant covered with 
leprous round scales, which are depressed in the centre. Style 
twisted at the base, bent, longer than the stamens. Leafy branch- 
es axillary. 
Scaly Sun-Rose. 
h. F. 
Cístus polyánthos, Desf. fl. atl. 
Fl. June, July. Cit. 1815. Shrub $ foot. 
Sect. IX. EVHELIA'NTHEMUM (from eve, eus, genuine, nALoc, 
helios, the sun, and ayoc, anthos, a flower ; that is to say, genuine 
species of Sun-Rose.) D. C. prod. 1. p. 278. Calyx of 5 sepals, 
rather twisted at the top, before expansion ; outer sepals usually 
spreading, much smaller than the inner ones, which are usually 
2 or 4 ribbed, furrowed, with scarious margins, with the inner 
surface shining,, and with the angles generally pilose. Petals 2, 
3, or 4 times longer than the calyx. Stamens numerous. Style 
bent at the base, but somewhat club-shaped at the apex. Stig- 
ma simple. Capsule covered by the calyx, 3-valved, 1-celled, 
opening at the apex. Seeds few, convex on the outside, and 
angular on the inside. Subshrubs, with the stems branched 
from the base; branches numerous, erect or procumbent, but 
generally ascendant. Leaves opposite, on short footstalks, lower 
ones smallest, usually with revolute margins, stipulate ; stipulas 
linear-lanceolate. | Racemes terminal, secund, simple, curved 
backwards before flowering, after flowering erect, elongated. 
Pedicels laterally bracteate at the base, drooping before flowering, 
when in flower erect, after flowering recurved or reflexed. 
* Petals yellow. 
91 H. ravanputzrotium (D, C. fi. fr. 4. p. 820.) stem suf- 
fruticose, erect, branched; branches long, terete, canescent ; 
leaves oblong-linear, with revolute margins, under surface tomen- 
tose, hoary, younger leaves canescent on both surfaces ; stipulas 
and bracteas linear, acute, ciliated ; racemes 1-3 terminal; flow- 
ers crowded ; calyxes glaucous; sepals ciliated, outer ones mi- 
nute, these become reflexed after flowering, inner sepals 2- 
nerved, oblique, acute. h.H. Native of the south of France, 
Barbary, Spain, and Syria, in dry places. Cistus lavandulzfolius, 
II. HeLiANTHEMUM. 
Lam. dict. 2. p. 25.—Barrel. icon. t..288. Furnished with ax- 
illary leafy branches. 
Var. B, Syriacum (D. C. pred. 1. p. 279.) leaves rather flat, 
upper surface greenish-grey. Cistus Syriacus, Jacq. icon. rar. t. 96. 
Var. y, Thibaudi (Pers. ench. 2. p. 79.) racemes long, erect. 
Cistus racemdsus. Cav. icon. 2. p. 33. t. 140. Perhaps the 
same plant after flowering. 
Lavender-leaved Sun-Rose. 
Shrub 1 foot. 
92 H. Brovussone' rn (Dunal, ined. et D. C. prod. 1. p. 279.) 
stem shrubby, branched; branches opposite; leaves flat, on 
short footstalks, oblong-lanceolate, bluntish, tomentose on both 
surfaces, under surface hoary, upper surface greenish-grey ; 
stipulas and bracteas caducous, linear, rather tomentose ; racemes 
short, branched ; flowers secund ; calyxes oblong, acute ; inner 
sepals 4-nerved, rather tomentose, yellowish. h. F. Native of 
the island of Teneriffe. Style twice the length of stamens, al- 
most erect. Stipulas somewhat falcate. 
Broussonet’s Sun-Rose. FÌ. June, July. Shrub 1 foot. 
93 H. ste@cnapirouium (Pers. ench. 2. p. 79.) stem erect ; 
branches hoary, tomentose ; leaves oblong-linear, bluntish, some- 
what tomentose on both surfaces, under surface hoary, upper 
surface greenish-grey, with revolute margins; stipulas rather 
villous, linear-lanceolate ; racemes revolute before flowering ; 
flowers crowded ; éalyxes villous; outer sepals ciliated, green, 
inner ones acuminated, hoary. h.H. Native of Spain and 
Fl. June, July. Clt. 1739. 
Corsica. Sweet, cist. icon. ind. Cistus stoechadifdlius, Brot. 
fl. lus. 2. p. 270. 
French-Lavender-leaved Sun-Rose. FÌ. Ju. Jul. Cit. 1816 
Sh. 1 ft.- i 
94 H. cròceum (Pers. ench. 2. p. 79.) stem shrubby, some- 
what procumbent, branched; branches simple, erect, hoary, 
tomentose ; leaves rather tomentose, under surface canescent, 
upper surface glaucous, with revolute margins; lower leaves 
almost round, middle ones elliptic, obtuse, upper ones lanceolate, 
acutish ; stipulas and bracteas erect, linear-oblong, villous, rather 
greenish ; calyxes yellowish-glaucous, minutely pubescent. — h. 
H. Native of Spain and Barbary. Sweet, cist. t. 53. Cistus 
cròceus, Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 422. t. 110. Lower stipulas mmute. 
Petals yellow, very much imbricated. 
Var. a, stipulas longer than the footstalks of the leaves. 
Var. 3, stipulas setaceous, shorter than the footstalks of the 
leaves. . 
Var. y, branches procumbent ; leaves smaller ; racemes few- 
flowered. f ? 
Saffron-coloured-flowered Sun-Rose. Fl. June, July. Clt. : 
Shrub procumbent. 
95 H. Anperson1 (Sweet, cist. t. 89.) stem suffruticose, pro- 
cumbent, branched ; branches ascending, canescently tomentose 
leaves oblong-lanceolate, acutish, rather tomentose, grey above, 
and canescent beneath, with the margins a little revolute 3, stipulas 
linear, awl-shaped, ciliated, a little longer than the petioles ; 
calyx tomentose ; petals imbricate. h. H. Flowers yellow. 
This is a hybrid from H. crdceum, fertilized by the pollen of H. 
pulveruléntum. l 
Anderson’s Sun-Rose. Fl. May, Aug. Clt. 1827. Sh. ascendant; 
96 H. Nupicav're (Dunal, ined. and D. C. prod. 1. p- 279. 
stem shrubby, branched ; branches smooth at bottom, but hoary- 
villous at the top; leaves oblong-lanceolate, with revolute mar” 
gins, tomentose on both surfaces, under surface hoary, UP per 
surface yellowish-green ; stipulas linear, longer than the petioles; 
calyxes profoundly sulcate, hardly pubescent, with elevated pilose 
nerves. h.H. Native of Spain, on mountains in the kingdom 
of Valentia. Petals yellow. Perhaps a variety of H. croceum 
Naked-stemmed Sun-Rose. Fl. J une, July. Clt. 1826. 
Shrub procumbent. 
