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Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol.7. 



58. H. lavanduleefolium (DC. fl. fr. 4. p. 820.) Stem suffrutescent, 

 erect, brandling : branches long, round, hoary ; leaves oblong-linear, revo- 

 lute at the margin, underneath clothed with a hoary tomentum : young ones 

 hoary on both sides ; stipules and bractes linear, acute, fringed ; racemes 

 1 to 3, terminal ; flowers close together ; calyx glaucous, sepals fringed : 

 outer ones minute, after flowering reflexed : inner ones 2-nerved, oblique, 

 acute.??. Native of the South of France, Spain, and Barbary. Barrel, 

 ic. t. 288. 



& syriacum. Leaves somewhat flatter, of a greyish green on the upper 

 side.^. Native of Syria. Cistus syriacus. Jacq. ic. rar. t. 96. 



y Thibaudi (Pers. syn. 8. p. 79.) Stem suffrutescent, stipulate, woolly; 

 leaves linear, their margins revolute ; flowers racemose, ciliated with glan- 

 dular hairs ; sepals oblique, somewhat 3-sided ; outer ones lanceolate, re- 

 flexed, f?. Native of Corsica. Cistus racemosus. Cavan. ic. 2. p. 33. 

 t. 140. is the same plant after flowering. DC. 



59. H. Broussonetii (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 279.) Stem shrubby, 

 branching : branches opposite ; leaves on short footstalks, flat, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, blunt, woolly on both sides, underneath hoary, upper side of a 

 greyish green ; stipules and bractes deciduous, linear, somewhat woolly ; 

 racemes short, branching ; flowers facing to one side ; calyx oblong, acute : 

 inner sepals 4-nervecl , somewhat woolly, yellowish. [?. Native of Teneriffe. 

 Style double the length of the stamens, nearly erect ; stipules somewhat 

 falcate ; flowers yellow. 



60. H. stcEchadifolium (Pers. syn. 2. p. 79.) Stem erect : branches 

 clothed with hoary toraentum ; leaves oblong-linear, bluntish, both sides 

 somewhat woolly : the upper side of a greenish ash-colour : underneath 

 hoary, with the margins revolute ; stipules somewhat villous, linearly lan- 

 ceolate ; racemes before flowering revolute ; flowers close together ; calyx 

 villous, outer sepals green and fringed, inner ones taper-pointed, hoary. ^. 

 Native of Portugal and Corsica. Cistus staechadifolius. Brot. fl. lusit. 2. 

 p. 270. This species is in the collection at the Chelsea Botanic Garden, 

 but has not yet flowered. 



61. H. nudicaule (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 279.) Stem shrubby, 

 branching : branches smooth below : above clothed with hoary villous wool ; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, margins revolute, both sides tomentose : under- 

 neath hoary : above greenish yellow ; stipules linear, longer than, the foot- 

 stalks ; calyx deeply furrowed, scarcely pubescent, the nerves elevated and 

 hairy. ^. Native of the mountains of Valentia, in Spain. Petals yellow. 



62. H. acumindtum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 79.) branches erect, base and 

 point hairy, naked between ; leaves on long footstalks, oblong, the margins 

 revolute, green on both sides, hairy : underneath somewhat woolly ; stipules 

 smoothish, linear, longer than the footstalks; racemes few flowered, loose, 

 somewhat hairy ; calyx smooth and glossy, transparent.^ . Native of fields 

 in Nice. Petals yellow. 



63. H. ovatum (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 280.) Stem suffrutescent, 

 procumbent, very much branched : branches villous ; leaves ellipticaliy lan- 

 ceolate, tapering into a footstalk at the base, bluntish, on both sides vil- 

 losely silky, fringed ; stipules a little longer than the footstalks, villosely 

 fringed ; flower-stalks 1 to 3-flowered, terminal, calyx somewhat villous.^. 

 Native of the mountains of Geneva. Cistus ovatus. Viv. fragm. 1. p. 6. 

 t. 8. f. 2. Hairs white, silky ; flowers yellow. 



64. H. lucidum (Horn. cat. h. hafii. 498.) Suffrutescent, procumbent, 



