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CISTUS CRETICUS. 



CRETAN CISTUS. 



Planta a qua colligitur La da num. 



Pharm. Lo?id. 



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STNO NY MA 



Coroll. Inji. rei herb, p 



\ 



Cifl-Us ladanifera cretica, flore purpur 



9 



ladanifera 



Voyage du Levant, t. i. p 



9 



Tourncf* 

 Ciftus 



Parh neat, /. ^G^, Ciftus, Ledon Cretenfe 



Bauh, P'm, p. ^6j, Ciftus Ledon Matthiol 



Gerard. Emac. p 



^6. Ciftus (cretkiis) arborefcens, foliis ovato-lanceolatis, hirftit 



ginibus undulatis, floribus terminalibus 

 olleB, i. p. 80. 



Miller. Dla. J acq 



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Clafs Polyandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. PL 



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J 



] Ge?i. Ch, 



^p. Ch. 



Cor, 5-petala. Cal. j-phyllus : foliolis duobus mino- 



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ribus. Capfula. 



C. arborefcens exftipulatus, foliis fpatulato-ovatis petiolatis 

 enerviis fcabris, calycinis laaceolatis. 



f 



f.. 



IS 



r 



THIS ^handfome ftirub feldom rifes to any confiderable height; i 



a dark coloured bark, and fends off feveral fimpl 



ed with 



branches : the leaves are oblong, pointed, Waved, rough, vifcou , 

 veined, and ftand in pairs upon fliort footftalks, which are broad at 

 the bafe, fo as nearly to furround the younger branches 



ft 



produced in fucceflion at the extremities of the branches in Ji 

 July; they are large, of a purpliili red colour, marked with d 



,s 



caly 



the bafe of each petal, and ftand on fhort pedunci 



divided in five 



arge 



the 

 pointed perfiftent fegments, of 



which the two outermoft are the fmalleft : the corolla is compofed of 

 five petals, which are large, roundifli, fpreading, and readily fall off 



being touched 



th 



p 



filam 



are 



and fupplied with fimple antherse of 



very fhort, ft 



the germen 



d fupports a Ihort ftyle, furniftied with a flat circular ftig 

 the capfule is roundifli, and contains many fmall orbicular feeds. 



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