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hairs, stipulate ; flowers approximate, racemose ; calyx very bristly, brown- 

 ish ; petals yellow, f?. Native of the North of Africa. Cistus ruficomus. 

 Viviani florae libycae, spec. p. 27. 1. 14. f. 5. 



29. H. lanuginbmm (Spreng. syst. 2. p. 589.) Stem suffrutescent, 

 branching ; the whole plant clothed with soft canescent hairs ; leaves op- 

 posite, on short footstalks, elliptic, densely woolly : floral ones sessile, lan- 

 ceolate, alternate, stipulate ; flowers in a raceme, all facing to one side, 

 somewhat reflexed before their expansion ; three inner sepals ovately lan- 

 ceolate, 3-nerved : the two outer ones linearly lanceolate, all about equal 

 in length; petals yellow, about equal with the calyx ; capsule triquetrous.^ . 

 Native of the North of Africa. Cistus lanuginosus. Viv. fl. lib. sp. 

 p. 28. 1. 14. f.3. 



30. H.micr<zw^Mm( Spreng. syst. 2. p. 588.) S tern suffrutescent, clothed 

 with starry bunches of hairs ; leaves linear, obtuse, clothed with bunches 

 of starry hairs : lower ones on short footstalks, opposite, nearly all flat : 

 upper ones alternate, with revolute margins : floral ones sessile, linear, 

 acute : stipules linearly lanceolate, a little longer than the footstalks ; flowers 

 racemose, distant ; sepals large, 3-5-nerved, ovate, acute, longer than the 

 petals ; petals elliptic, the length of the stamens. T? . Native of the North 

 of Africa. Cistus micranthus. Viv. fl. lib. p. 28. 1. 14. f. 4. Petals simi- 

 lar to H. surrefanum, yellow. 



31. H.Kahiricum (Delil. fl. eg. 93. t. 31. f. 2.) Stem very much 

 branched, twisted at the base : branches ascending ; lower leaves opposite, 

 the others alternate, obovate, margins rolled back, hoary, underneath nerved, 

 stipulate ; racemes with the flowers facing to one side ; flowers on short foot- 

 stalks : the flower-stalks and calyx villosely hairy ; sepals acute ; capsules 

 oblong, villosely hairy. ^. Native of Egypt. Petals connected at the 

 points. 



32. H. confertum (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1, p. 274.) Stem suffrutescent, 

 branching, naked at the base : branches clothed with short ash-coloured 

 wool ; leaves lanceolately elliptic, bluntish, clothed on both sides with short 

 wool : the upper side greenish, underneath hoary ; stipules linear, small ; 

 racemes small, the flowers facing to one side, terminal, or opposite to a leaf; 

 flowers crowded, nearly sessile ; calyx hairy, inner sepals acute. f?. Na- 

 tive of the Island of Teneriffe. 



33. H. canarimse (Willd. enum. 571.) Stem suffrutescent, procum- 

 bent ; branches somewhat woolly, of a whitish ash-colour ; leaves on foot- 

 stalks, opposite and alternate, somewhat ovately elliptic, blunt, clothed 

 with short wool on both sides, glaucous, underneath of a white ash-colour ; 

 stipules awl-shaped, shorter than the footstalks ; racemes terminal, erect ; 

 bractes minute ; flowers on short stalks, that are clothed with hoary wool. ^ . 

 Native of the Canary Islands. Cistus canariensis. Jacq. ic. 1. t. 97. 

 Calyx glaucous : inner sepals ovate, bluntish. 



34. H. mucrondtum (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 274.) Stem somewhat 

 erect, spreading : branches woolly, intermixed with hairs, hoary ; leaves on 

 footstalks, ovate-elliptic, bellied, mucronate : the upper side green, roughish, 

 clothed with bunches of starry hairs : underneath clothed with hoary wool ; 

 stipules awl-shaped, hairy, shorter than the footstalks; racemes mostly ter- 

 minal ; flowers on short footstalks, clothed with wool and hairs intermixed. ^ . 

 Native of Teneriffe. Calyx clothed with silky hairs; sepals broadly 

 ovate, bluntish. 



36. H. distdchium (DC. prodr. 1. p. 284.) Stem suffrutescent, stipu- 



