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CISTUS villosus, 



Villous Rock-Rose. 



Sect. I. ERYTHROCISTUS. Supra, fol. 3. 



* Pedunculis unifloris, axillaribus vel terminalibus, solitariis um- 

 bellatisve; stylo cylindrico scept staminibus long lore; stigmate capi- 

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



C. villosus, foliis subrotundo-ovatis planis undulatisve rugosis to- 

 mentoso-hirtis petiolatis, petiolis basi dilatatis sulcatis subvagi- 

 nantibus, pedunculis subcymosis unifloris 1-3-nisve, sepalis villosis, 

 petalis patentissimis basi imbricatis. 



Cistus villosus. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264. Lam. diet. 2. p. 12. Willden. 

 sp. pi. 2. p. 1181. Pers. syn. 2. p. 74. Hort. Kew. ed.2. v. 3. p. 303. 



Cistus mas major, folio rotundiore. Du Hamel art. 1. p. 167. t. 64. 



Stem shrubby, much branched, clothed with a brown 

 cracked scaly bark : branches opposite, spreading, erect 

 or ascending, densely clothed with short canescent 

 wool, and a few longer hairs intermixed. Leaves oppo- 

 site, roundly ovate, bluntish, some flat, others undu- 

 late, reticulately veined, rugose, tomentosely hairy, of 

 a grey or whitish appearance, thickly clothed on both 

 sides with short stellate hairs, attenuated down the pe- 

 tiole. Petioles villosely hairy, channelled and dilated 

 at the base, sheathing the stem. Flowers in a sort of 

 cyme, rose-coloured, or purple, varying in colour on 

 different plants. Bractes leaf-like, one at the base of 

 each peduncle, sessile, lanceolate, taper-pointed. Pe- 

 duncles 1 to 3-flowered, thickly clothed with spreading 

 villous hairs. Calyx of 5 sepals, which are cordately 

 ovate, taper-pointed, thickly clothed with long villous 

 hairs : outer ones leaf-like, with the margins a little re- 

 flexed: inner ones membranaceous, concave. Petals 5, 

 much spreading, imbricate at the base, obovate, or ob- 

 cordate, much crumpled, somewhat crenulate, varying 



