x 



high, somewhat ash-coloured ; floral leaves or bractes alternate, linearly 

 oblong, often petiolate, 1-2-stipuled, sometimes solitary, entire, or jagged, 

 oftentimes shorter than the flower-stalks. 



23. H. denticulatum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem branching, upright, 

 or spreading : branches erect, or ascending, clothed with minute woolly 

 pubescence, the points ash-coloured ; leaves on short footstalks obovately 

 oblong, somewhat pointed, more or less toothed with short teeth, woolly, 

 green on the upper side, underneath hoary ; stipules linear, the upper ones 

 about half the length of the leaves ; flower-stalks and calyx opposite to 

 the bractes; bractes alternate, more or less jagged.. Native of the South 

 of France. Bractes somewhat ovate, often jagged, sessile, without sti- 

 pules ; calyx before flowering hoary on the outside. K&tif . 



24. H. sangmneum (DC. prodr. p. 273.) Stem herbaceous, short, crim- 

 son, clothed with a viscid pubescence ; leaves on foostalks, opposite, ovate, 

 blunt, roughish : lower ones without stipules, and crimson underneath : 

 upper ones stipulate ; stipules oblong-linear, obtuse, petiolate, scarcely 

 shorter than the leaves ; flower-stalks clothed with viscid hairs, axillary, 

 or opposite to a leaf, when in fruit, bent backwards. 0. Native of Spain. 

 Leaves all opposite ; flower-stalks always axillary, and opposite to the 

 leaves ; sepals striated on the inner side. 



25. H. cegyptiacum (Mill. diet. n. 23.) Stem herbaceous, pubescent, 

 erect, or ascending ; leaves on short footstalks, opposite, linearly oblong, 

 narrow, bluntish, margins rolled back : underneath pale ash-colour : upper 

 ones alternate, stipulate ; stipules linearly subulate ; flower-stalks very slen- 

 der, pubescent, opposite to the upper leaves ; calyx ovately oblong, infla- 

 ted, including the petals.0. Native of Egypt, Barbary, and Spain. Cis- 

 tus aegyptiacus. Jacq. obs. 3. p. 17. t. 68. Flower-stalks thickened up- 

 wards, sometimes opposite to the short linear bractes ; outer sepals narrow, 

 short : inner ones 4-nerved, the nerves fringed ; petals lanceolate, very short. 



We have frequently raised plants from seeds of the different annual 

 species that compose the above Section, but have not met with any of them 

 since we commenced the present work. 



Sect. VI. ERIOCARPUM. Supra folio 108. 



26. H. Lippii (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem suffrutescent, erect, pubes- 

 cent, whitish, somewhat bifid, or forked ; leaves opposite and alternate, 

 on short footstalks, elliptically lanceolate, or linearly oblong, blunt, rough- 

 ish, glaucescent, underneath clothed with a white hoariness ; stipules nar- 

 row, erect, length of the footstalk ; racemes short ; flowers sessile, crowded, 

 bracteate at the base ; bractes very minute.??. Native of Egypt. Sepals 

 pubescent : inner ones 4-5-ribbed, obtuse ; petals ovate, yellow, scarcely 

 longer than the calyx ; stamens about 10, shorter than the petals. 



27. H. sessiliflbrwn (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem suffrutescent, erect, 

 very much branched : branches pubescent ; leaves opposite and alternate, 

 linear, the margins somewhat rolled back, clothed with a short ash-coloured 

 tomentum ; stipules small , linear ; racemes short ; flowers sessile ; bractes 

 minute. 1?. Native of dry hills, in the North of Africa. Cistus sessili- 

 florus. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 418. 1. 107. Sepals pubescent, inner ones ob- 

 tuse ; petals yellow, a little longer than the calyx. 



28. H. rujftcbmum (Spreng. syst. 2. p. 589.) Stem suffrutescent, thickly 

 clothed with canescent starry fascicles of hairs ; leaves on short footstalks : 

 lower ones elliptic, obtuse, flat : upper ones narrower, linear, or oblong, 

 margins somewhat re volute, all clothed underneath with starry bunches of 



