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CISTUS crispus. 

 Curled-leaved Rock- Rose. 



Sect. 1. ERYTHROCISTUS. Supra, fol.3. 



* Pedunculis unifloris, axillaribus vel terminalibus, solitariis urn- 

 bellatisve ; stylo cyiindrico scept staminibus longiore ; stigmate capi- 

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



C. crispus, foliis sessilibus lineari-lanceolatis undulato-crispis 

 nerviis rugosis pubescentibus, floribus subsessilibus 3-4-nis 



tri- 

 um- 



bellatis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264. 

 Cistus crispus. Linn. spec. 1. p. 738. Willden.sp. pi. 2. p. 1188. 

 Pers. syn, 2. p. 75. Cavan. ic. 2. p. 57. . 174. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 

 v. 3. p. 306. Spreng. syst. veg. -2. p. 585. 



woody, erect or slightly flexiiose, clothed with 

 a brown more or less cracked bark, much branched : 

 branches opposite, spreading, thickly clothed with un- 

 equal spreading villous white hairs. Leaves opposite, 

 sessile, linearly lanceolate, acute, rugose, three-nerved 

 at the base, reticulately veined underneath, clothed on 

 both sides with a close short white pubescence, roughish 

 to the touch, margins much undulate or curled . Flowers 

 of a red purple, terminal, subcymose, nearly sessile, or 

 with very short peduncles, 3 to 7-flowered. Bractes 

 small, leaf-like, lanceolate, acute. Peduncles 1 to 3- 

 flowered. Pedicles very short, villosely hairy. Calyx of 

 5 sepals, the 2 outer ones largest, leaf-like, ovate, acute, 

 many nerved ; the third narrower and scariose on one 

 side, inner ones smaller, concave, scariose, taper-pointed. 

 Petals 5, broadly obovate, imbricate nearly their whole 

 length, edges crenulate. Stamens from 150 to 180, com- 

 pact, surrounding the style : filaments smooth, pale 

 yellow; pollen orange-coloured. Style pubescent, scarce- 

 ly as long as the stamens. Stigma capitate, tuberculate. 

 This is a very pretty and distinct species, a native of 

 the South of Europe, and if grown in a sheltered situa- 



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