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AllBOUETUM AND FRUTICETU.M. 



rAUT III. 



§ i. Eiijthrochtus, Dec. i. p. <264-. 



Derivation. I'rom crylhros, red, and cistus ; because the flowers of all the species in this section arc 

 red or purple. 



Sect. Char. Outer sepals narrowest, and usually smallest; inner ones concave 

 at tlie base, with scarious margins. Petals rose-coloured, red, or purple, 

 with a yellow spot at the base of each. Capsule 5-cclled, from having 

 5 seminiferous partitions, one in the middle of each valve. {Dec. Prod., i. 

 p. -iiiV. ; Doit's u\Iill., i. p. 298.) Low shrulis, evergreen, sub-evergreen, 

 or deciduous, generally with large showy Hovvers. 



A. Peduncles \-Jlowered, a.vUIart/ or terminal, solilar^ or umbellate. Style ct/Un- 

 drieal, generallj/ longer than the Stamens. Stigma capitate, 5-furroived. (Ibid.) 



«. 1. Ci'sTUs purpu'reus LaJH. The purple-cowered Cistus, or liock Rose. 



lilrntification Lam. Diet, 2. p. 14. ; Ker, in Bot. Reg., t. 408. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 264. ; Swt Cist, 



t. 17. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 298. 

 Synunymes. C. creticus Hort. Kew. ; the purple Gum Cistus, the purple Shrubby Cistus ; Ciste 



pourprc, Fr. ; purpurrothe Cisten Rose, Gcr. 

 Engravings. Rot. Keg., t 408. ; Swt. Cist., t. 17. ; and our/g. 64. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 acute, and more or less rugose ; reticulately veined, 

 with unilulated margins. Petioles short, hairy, con- 

 nected at the base, and sheathing the stem. Flowers 

 terminal, from 1 to 6, on short peduncles. Bracteas 

 sessile, leaf-like, pubescent, broad and concave at fv '- 

 the base, where they are connected, and terminating y 

 in acute points. Pedicels short, and with the calyx ^; 

 hairy ; calyx of 3 sepals. Petals 5 or 0, obovate or /^-'afc 

 wedge-shaped ; very much imbricate, more or less 'f/^, 

 crumpled. Stamens numerous, filaments smooth. / 



Stvle very short ; and stigma large, capitate, 5-lobed, f'^^'fi 



papillose. {Swt. Cist., 17.) A shrub about 3 ft. or i>'^)^| 



4 ft. high, and much branched ; the branches are erect, 

 and clothed with a brownish pubescence. The flowers are very larj^ 

 handsome, of a bright reddish purple, with a yellow spot at the base, above 

 which is a large dark velvet mark, surrounded with red, and slightly branched. 

 The petals are imbricate, and much crumpled. It is a native of the Levant ; 

 but when it was introduceil into England is uncertain : it seems to have been 

 cultivated by Gerard under the name of Tistus mas angustifolius, "with 

 flowers of a purple colour, in sha[)e like luito a single-flower briar rose, 

 having leaves very like those of sage, wrinkled somewhat like unto a cloth 

 new dried before it be smooth." It is rather tender; but, if planted near or 

 against a wall, requires no other protection. It flowers abundantly in June 

 and Julv, and is very ornamental. It grows very fast, and is easily propa- 

 gated by cuttings. 



a. 2. Ci'sTUS iieterophy'lms Desf. The various-leaved Cistus, or Rock 



Rose. 



Identification. Desf. Atl., 1. p. 411. t. 104. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 2ii4. ; 



Swt. Cist., t. 6. ; Don's Mill.. 1. p. 298. 

 Synoni/mes. The Gum ("istus of Algiers ; Ciste hctcrophylle, Fr. 

 F.ngravings. Desf AU., 1. 1. 104. ; Swt. Cist., t. 6. ; and our/tg.t)5. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate ; petioles 

 very short, hairy, and sheathing at the base; 

 margins of the leaves revolute, green on both 

 sides. Pcdimcles hairy, onc-flowercd, with two 

 leafy bractea.s about the middle of them. Flowers 

 large, terminal. Calyx of j hairy sepals. Petals 5 

 or 6, imbricate, obovate, with roundish points. 

 A stirt" upright woody shridi, with short rigid 

 branches, thickly clothed, as well as the other 

 parts of the plant, with a liairv pubescence. The 



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