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CISTUS undulatus 



Wave-leaved Rock- Rose. 



Sect. I. ERYTHROCISTUS. Supra fol. 3. 



* Pedunculis unifloris, axillaribus aut terminalibus, solitariis um- 

 bellatisve ; stylo cylindrico scept staminibus longiore ; stigmate capitata 

 5-sulcato. 



C. undulatus, foliis subsessilibus aut in petiolum brevem attenuatis 

 margine undulatis rugosis scabris utrinque pilosis subcanescentibus ; 

 inferioribus elliptico-oblongis acutis basi attenuatis trinerviis : su- 

 perioribus linearibus basi connatis, peduriculis solitariis 1-3-floris, 

 sepalis longe acuminatis villosis, capsula rotundo-ovata adpresse 

 sericeo-pilosa. 



Cistus undulatus. Dunal in DC.prodr. v. 1. p. 264. n. 8. Swt. hort. 

 bi-it. edit. 2. . 41. n. 8. 



Stem shrubby, much branched, forming a handsome 

 close compact bush : branches thickly clothed with short 

 woolly hairs, the younger ones with spreading villous 

 ones. Leaves variable, sessile, or attenuated into a sort 

 of short footstalk at the base, oblong or elliptically 

 oblong, acute, the lower ones ovate and bluntish, more 

 or less undulate at the margins, rough and rugged, 

 three-nerved and attenuated at the base, reticulately 

 veined, hairy on both sides and slightly canescent, the 

 hairs short and in fascicles : upper leaves linear, spread- 

 ing, the points generally reflexed, connected at the base. 

 Flowers varying from light to bright purple, terminal, 

 solitary or in threes, terminating the young branches, 

 which sometimes give an appearance of being panicu- 

 late or cymose, the young branches being oftentimes 

 crowded at the points of the main shoot. Peduncles 

 short, densely clothed witli tufts of hairs, which give 

 them a woolly appearance. Calyx of 5 sepals, that are 

 ovate, concave, villous at the base, and tapering to a long 





