Tas. 5241. 
CISTUS vaaGinartus. 
Sheath-leaved Cistus. 
Nat. Ord. Cistack&.—PoLyaANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx. 5-sepalus; sepalis duplici serie dispositis, 2 externis ine- 
qualibus, interdum nullis. Petala 5, eequalia, subcuneata, caduca. Stamina 
seepe e disco glanduloso exserta. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Capsula 
calyce obtecta, 10—5-locularis, valvis 10-5, medio septiferis. Semina ovato-an- 
gulata. Hmbryo filiformis, spiralis——Frutices, suffruticesve. Folia opposita, 
exstipuluta, integra vel subdenticulata. Pedunculi azillares, uni- aut multi-flori. 
De Cand. 
Cistus (§ Erythrocistus) vaginatus ; foliis lanceolatis acutis trinerviis hirsutis 
subtus reticulatis petiolatis, petiolis basi dilatatis margine pilosis sulcatis 
vaginantibus, pedunculis axillaribus 1-8-floris. 
Cistus vaginatus. dit. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 2. p. 232, ed. 2. 0. 3. p. 304. 
Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. v. 3. p.17. t. 28. Bot. Reg. t. 225. Sweet, Cistin. 
t.9. De Cand. Prodr.v. 1. p. 265. 
Cistus symphytifolius. Lam, Encycl. v. 2. p. 15. 
Ruopoctstus Bertholletianus. Spach, Veget. v. 6. p. 83, and in Webb, Phytogr. 
Canar. v. 1. p. 125. ¢. 12. 
B. leucophyllus, Spach, 1. c.; foliis vix pilosis, subtus presertim ramulisque et 
calyce speciosissime cinereo-tomentosis, ovario toto tomentoso. 
Cistvs candidissimus. Don, in De Cand. Prodr.v.1. p. 264. Sweet, Cistin. t. 3. 
Cistvs ochreatus. Link, in Buch. Beschr. Canar. Ins. p. 153. 
It is much to be regretted, that many very handsome and 
easily cultivated plants, introduced to our gardens eighty and a 
hundred years ago, are neglected and lost, in favour of new 
plants which fall far short of them in point of beauty. The pre- 
sent is one among that number, a native of Teneriffe, cultivated 
at Kew so long ago as 1779, when seeds were sent by Frederic 
Masson, and now scarcely to be found in collections at the present 
time, save in that of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., at Reigate, a place 
rich in rare plants of Teneriffe. To that island it is quite pecu- 
liar, growing in Pine-woods and Cistus-scrubs (“in Pinetis et 
Cisticetis ”) according to Mr. Webb, at elevations upon the moun- 
APRIL Ist, 1861. 
