over twenty degrees of frost, and there are but few species 
of Cistus of which this can be said. It is also undoubtedly 
one of the most beautiful of the Rock Roses, flowering very 
profusely and making a striking display for several weeks 
from Midsummer onwards. Messrs. Rouy and Foucaud 
recognise two distinct forms, both of which have been met 
with in a wild state; the first, albiflorus, has petals with no 
crimson spot near the base; the second, maculatus, which 
is that now figured, has petals with a crimson a a 
C. Loreti is easily increased by cuttings made of late 
summer shoots. Owing to its dislike of root disturbance it 
should be grown in pots until planted out permanently. 
A light sandy soil and the sunniest situation available 
should be given to it. : 
Drscriprion.— Shrub, 4 ft. high, erect, somewhat viscid ; 
branches pale brown. Lvaves opposite, spreading, sessile, 
sliglitly connate at the base, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
apex obtuse or rounded, narrowed to the base, 14-21 in. long, 
5-3 In. wide, 3-nerved, dark green above, almost glabrous, 
with impressed venation, paler beneath, sparingly finely 
stellate hairy, with raised venation; leaves of the flowering 
shoots elliptic-oblong, about 1} in. long, } in. wide, above 
slightly stellate near the base, almost glabrous nearer the 
apex, beneath finely stellate-hairy. Inflorescence umbellate, 
3-4-flowered, bracteate, at the ends of the twigs; bracts 
ovate, acute, about 3 in. long, nearly 4 in. across, almost 
silky above, stellate-pubescent and along the midrib sparingly 
beset with long hairs below. Sepals 5, rarely 6 or 4, much 
imbricate, connate below, wide ovate, 4 in. long or longer, 
stellate-pubescent outside, adpressed villous on the outer 
edges within. Petals 5, tugacious, very wide obovate, 
1} in. across, white, with a yellow basal spot + in. wide and 
just above this a dark red spot } in. wide. Stamens many ; 
filaments filiform, slightly widened upwards, about 4 in. 
long; anthers oblong, small, locelli diverging downwards. 
Ovary subglobose, finely closely pilose, 1 in. across, 
incompletely 5—6-celled; ovules many in each cell; style 
very short; stigma discoid. | 
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Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, pistil; 4, transverse section of the ovary :—all 
erlaryed: : 
