3. Leaves opposite or alternate, and of what form. 
4. Stipules two or none. 
5. Peduncles one-or many-flowered, and with or without 
bractes. 
6. Shape of petals. 
7. Capsules 5-celled or 3-valved. 
8. Calyx equal or unequal. 
Cistus Barreliert is an upright small branched shrub, 
with opposite linear-lanceolate, revolute leaves, not unlike 
those of Rosemary, by nomeans crowded together, or in 
fascicles, terminated with a very small mucro ; short petioles 
with two small, erect, subulate stipules to each. The 
branches end in a raceme of a few yellow flowers on 
longish footstalks, red at the lower part, and after the 
flowering is over, much reflected with a single small oval 
bracte at the base of each. Calyx oval, pointed, the two 
outer leaflets small, spreading, green, and might be called 
bractes rather than parts of the calyx; the three inner ones 
connivent, reddish, and persistent ; with the ciliate nerves 
so raised, as to make the calyx appear angular. Petals 
rounded, not emarginate. Stamens not half the length 
of the petals. Style the length of the stamens: stigma 
capitate. 
Linnazus united Tournerorr’s genera Cisrus and He- 
LIANTHEMUM. Jussieu and most modern botanists have 
Hf separated them, but as they remain united in the 
ortus Kewensis, and we have already published some 
species of HetianrHemum under the name of Cisrus, we 
still continue the Linnean euee etiou, contenting ourselves 
with the sections into which the genus is divided ; if they 
are to be separated, this species will belong to Het1anrHeE- 
MUM. -- 
The synonymy is particularly difficult to be ascertained. 
Tenore quotes tab. 443 of Barreier; but tab. 440 of the 
same author is certainly much more like our plant, which 
we have therefore quoted, adding the former as dubious. - 
We are indebted for the communication of this plant, 
and generally for the synonymy, to P. B. Wess, Esq. who 
raised it from seeds given him by Professor Pinzo of 
Palermo, author of a Pugillus rariorum plantarum Sicilia, 
and is doubtless Trenorz’s species. It is distincuished from 
some other nearly allied species, chiefly by its upright 
growth. 3 
Native of the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples, and 
of Basilicata. It will probably require ‘0 be protected 
from frost. Flowers in September and October. 
