xvi CISTINE^E. 



name in English Botany, and considered as such in the gardens ; we do not 

 believe the present species is in any collection in this country, at present. 



51. H. rotundifblium (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 277.) Stem suffru- 

 tescent, branching from the base : branches simple, generally decumbent at 

 the base, clothed with a hoary tomentum ; leaves on short footstalks : the 

 upper side of a glaucescent green , underneath clothed with white wool : lower 

 ones nearly orbicular, others ovate : the upper ones stipulate ; stipules small, 

 oblong, deciduous ; racemes solitary, or 2 or 3 in a sort of crowded panicle, 

 terminating the branches ; calyx hairy, f?. Native of Spain, and Barbary. 

 Cistus nummularius. Cavan. ic. 2. p. 34. 1. 142. Flowers yellow. 



52. H. rubtllum (Presl. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 591.) Leaves ovate, round- 

 ish, or oblong, acute : upper side dark red, and smooth : underneath clothed 

 with short white wool ; llowers racemed, pendulous ; calyx hairy. 1j . Na- 

 tive of Sicily. 



53. H. crassifblium (Pers. syn. 2. p. 77.) Stem suftrutescent, erect, 

 smoothish ; leaves somewhat succulent, on short footstalks : lower ones 

 ovate, acute, without stipules : upper ones oblongly linear, stipulate ; race- 

 mes short, in a sort of umbel ; calyx hairy at the base.??. Native of Bar- 

 bary, and near Valencia, in Spain. Cistus glaucus. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 418, 

 but not of Cavanilles. Leaves on the upper side and at the margins, and 

 the middle nerve underneath hairy; footstalks hairy : hairs thinly scattered, 

 long, white. 



54. H. paniculatum (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 278.) Stems suffru- 

 tescent, procumbent: branches ascending, or erect, flowering ones long, 

 bearing stipules on the upper part; leaves on footstalks, ovate, bluntish, or 

 rarely roundish : upper side green, underneath hoary ; racemes opposite, or 

 in threes, panicled. ??. Native of mountains in Spain and Sicily. Stipules 

 minute, linear, acute; flowers small, yellow. 



55. H. polydnthon (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem suffru tescent, erect, 

 hairy ; leaves on footstalks : lower ones smallest, ovate, obtuse, underneath 

 clothed with a short white tomentum : the upper ones stipulate, ovately ob- 

 long, or lanceolate, green on both sides, the margins fringed ; stipules lon- 

 ger than the footstalks ; racemes hairy, panicled ; flower-stalks filiform, and 

 with the calyx, hairy.??. Native of the North of Africa. Cistus polyan- 

 thos. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 420. 1. 108. 



56. H. cintreum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 76.) Stem suffrutescent, erect, branch- 

 ing : branches opposite, hoary ; lower leaves without stipules, ovate, acute, 

 attenuated into a sort of footstalk at the base, densely clothed with a short 

 tomentum, of a hoary ash-colour : upper ones stipulate ; racemes panicled, 

 axillary, opposite, terminating the branches in threes ; calyx bristly, fj. 

 Native of Spain. Cistus cinereus. Cavan. ic. 2. p. 33. 1. 141. Flowers 

 small ; petals entire. 



Lagascdnum. DC. Stems slenderer; calyx less bristly. 



57. H. squammdtum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem suffrutescent : branches 

 long, erect, somewhat ligneous, leprously silvery ; leaves on footstalks, ob- 

 long, blunt, leprously silvery, bearing stipules ; stipules small, sessile, acute, 

 soon turning brown ; racemes axillary, solitary, or terminating the branches 

 in threes ; flowers leaning to one side ; flower-stalks near each other, brac- 

 teate at the base ; bractes soon turning brown ; calyx leprous. ^ . Native 

 of Spain, and Barbary. Cistus squammatus. Cavan. ic. 139. Barr. rar. 

 ic. t. 328. Plant leprous : branches 4-sided at the base : scales orbicular, 

 depressed in the centre ; style longer than the stamens, twisted at the base. 



