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CISTUS incanus. 



Hoary Rock-Rose. 



Sect. I. ERYTHROCISTUS. Supra fol 3. 



* Pedunculis unifloris, axillaribus vel terminalibus, solitariis um 

 bellatisve ; stylo cylindrico scepc staminibus longiore ; stigmate 

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



C. incanus, foliis ovato-spathulatis tomentoso-incanis rngosis basi 

 attenuatis subtrincrviis sessilibus subconnatis; superioribus an- 

 gustioribus, pedunculis subunifloris villosis, sepalis ovatis villosis, 

 petalis imbricatis. 



Cistus incanus. Linn. spec. 1. p. 737. Willden. spec. pi. 2. p. 1185. 

 Pers. syn. 2. p. 75. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 585. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 305. Curtis Botan. magaz. 43. Swt. 

 hort. brie. p. 34. w. 7. 



shrubby, very much branched: branches short 

 and crowded, thickly clothed with short grey down, 

 and longer hairs intermixed. Leaves sessile, ovately 

 spathulate, obtuse, attenuated towards the base, slightly 

 3-nerved, rugose, undulate, reticulately veined, clothed 

 with a short dense white tomentum, which wears off by 

 age, slightly connected at the base, and sheathing the 

 stem a little : upper ones narrower and acute, more hairy. 

 Peduncles short and stout, villosely tomentose, one- 

 flowered, generally solitary, but sometimes in pairs. (7a- 

 lyx of 5 sepals, which are ovate and acute, thickly clo- 

 thed with short villous down; two inner ones concave, 

 with subulate points, membranaceous on one side. Pe- 

 tals 5, obovate, imbricate, undulate, and crumpled, of a 

 light rosy lilac, with a faint yellow spot near the base. 

 Stamens very numerous, surrounding the stigma : jfila- 

 ments long and slender, smooth, of a light yellow : pol- 

 len bright orange colour. Germen clothed with long vil- 

 lousdown. Style about the length of the stamens, smooth, 

 slender at the base. Stigma capitate, 5-furrowed, papil- 

 lose. 



