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CISTUS vaginatus. 



Oblong-leaved Rock-rose. 



Sect. I. ERYTHROCISTUS. Supra,fol3. 



* Pedunculis unifloris, axillaribus vel terminalibus, solitariis, um- 

 bellatisve : stylo cylindrico scepd staminibus longiore ; stigmate capi- 

 tato 5-sulcato. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264. 



C. vaginatus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis trinerviis hirsutis sub- 

 tus reticulatis petiolatis, petiolis basi dilatatis margine pilosis snl- 

 catis vaginantibus, floribus paniculatis, pedunculis subtrifloris 

 calycibusque hirsuto-villosis. 



Cistus vaginatus. DC. prodr. 1. p. 265. Jacq. hort. schcenb. 3. p. 17. 

 t. 282. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 304. ed. 2. u. 3. p. 304. Willden. sp. 

 pi. 2. p. 1183. Pers. syn. 2. p. 75. Botan. Regist. 225. Spreng. 

 syst. veg. 2. p. 585. 



Shrubby, erect, branching, clothed with a brown de- 

 ciduous bark: branches spreading, ascendant, cylindri- 

 cal, thickly clothed with a dense white tomentum, and 

 short viscous hairs intermixed. Leaves opposite, ob- 

 longly lanceolate, at first acute, but becoming blunter 

 by age, covered on both sides with long white hairs, 

 and some smaller ones intermixed; underneath 3- 

 nerved, and reticulately veined, upper side of a whitish 

 green, underside yellowish. Petioles short, channelled 

 on the upper side, and rounded on the lower, with a 

 furrow on each side, dilated and connected at the base, 

 sheathing the stem, viscous, and clothed with unequal 

 hairs. Flowers large, panicled, of a light rose colour. 

 Bractes sessile, clasping the stem, lower ones leaf-like, 

 oblongly lanceolate, acute, upper ones small, oblongly 

 ovate. Peduncles generally 3-flowered, clothed with 

 soft down, and longer spreading hairs. Pedicles cylin- 

 drical, a little nodding, slightly viscous. Sepals 5, 

 papillose, hairy, the 2 outer ongs scarcely one third as 

 large as the inner ones, oblong-lanceolate, acute, points 



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