POLYANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cistus. 23 



Root simple at the crown, branching below. Stems one or more, 

 erect, simple, leafy, round, clothed, like the rest of the herbage, 

 with fine, soft, spreading hairs. Leaven opposite, stalked, ellip- 

 tic-lanceolate, flat, 11 inch long, single-ribbed, with many 

 straight veins ; less sharply pointed than is represented in the 

 old wooden cuts. Stipulas linear-lanceolate, acute, rather con- 

 vex or revolute, not half so long as the leaves. Fl. solitary, on 

 short thick hairy stalks, opposite to each leaf on the upper half 

 of the stem, Bracleas none. Cat. rough, most hairy at the 

 ribs and margin. Pet. small, obovate, entire, pale yellow, very 

 fugacious, and occasionally wanting. Caps, large, triangular, 

 polished, hairy at the upper part of the angles, single-celled, the 

 receptacles being not at all prominent so as to form partitions. 

 Seeds numerous, pale, roundish. 



The C. annuus- of Clusius, Hist. v. 1 . 76, whose figure is repeated 

 in Gerarde, Lobel,&c., and copied in J. Bauhin, v. 2. 13, is more 

 like some stiitcs of the present plant than that for which it was 

 apparently intended, C. salicifolius. These figures perhaps mis- 

 led Mr. Hudson. 



'^'*** Dwa}f shrubs, xvith stipulas, 

 4. C. surrejanus. Dotted -leaved Cistus. 

 Shrubby, procumbent, widi stipulas. Leaves ovate-oblong, 

 hairy and dotted beneath. Petals lanceolate. 



C. surrejanus. Linn. % P/. 743. Willd. v. 2. \202. FlDr.575. 

 Engl. Bot. v.3\. t.2207. 



C. Helianthemum ^. Hiids. 233. 



C. suffruticosus procumbens stipulatus, foliis ovato-oblongis sub- 

 pilosis, pctalis lanceolatis. Ililf Fl. Br. 27 A. t.27.f. \; bad. 



Helianthemum vulgare, petalis florum perangustis. Dill, in Rail 

 Syn.3A\. Hort. Etth. \77 . t. 14.')./. 174. 



On chalky hills, rare. 



Near Croydon, Surrey. Mr. Edward l)u Bois. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Stems prostrate, simple, a foot long, leafy, round, clothed with 

 fine, soft, depressed, entangled hairs. Leaves above an inch in 

 length, stalked, spreading, ovate-oblong, or lanceolate, obtuse, 

 flat, entire ; the upper side green and nearly naked ; under 

 paler, wiih a few starry hairs, and several scattered little hol- 

 lows or depres.sions, occasioning prominences on the upper sur- 

 face, wliich sometimes bear 2 or 3 simi)le hairs. Stipulas lan- 

 ceolate, fringed, full twice as long as the footstalks. Clusters 

 terminal, simple, recurved, downy, many-flowered. Bracteas 

 small, obtuse, fringed, not hoary. C<il. strongly ribbed, furrowed, 

 hairv, twisted in tiie bud. Pet. longer or shorter than the ca- 

 lyx.'ycUow, lanceolate, partly notched or serrated. Stam. Bome- 

 time.s very short, as if imj)erfect. (icrmcn dentiely hairy. Style 

 bent ('<ij>s. with 3 very '^liglit ])artilions. 



