CISTUS heterophyllus. 



Various-leaved Rock-Rose. 



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



* Peduncalis unifloris, axillaribus vel terminalibus, solitariis, 

 umbellatisve : stylo cylindrico scepe staminibus longiore ; stigmate 

 capitato 5 sulcato. DC. prodr. 1. p. 204. 



C. heterophyllus , foliis ovato-lanceolatis breviter petiolatis basi 

 vaginantibus margine revolutis utrinque viridibus, pedunculis 

 hirsutis foliosis unifloris 1-2-ternisve, petalis rotundato-obovatis 

 basi imbricatis. 



Cistus heterophyllus. Desf. all. 1. p. 411. t. 104. Pers. syn. 2. 

 p. 75. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264. Hort. sub. lond. p. 123. Spreng. 

 syst. veg. "2. p. 584. 



A stiff upright woody shrub, much branched : branches 

 short and rigid, spreading, of a reddish brown colour, 

 thickly clothed with a woolly pubescence. Leaves 

 small, with short petioles, sheathing at the base, very 

 variable, green on both sides, reticulately veined un- 

 derneath, slightly hairy and ciliate, the nerves pubes- 

 cent : lower ones round or ovately rounded, obtuse, the 

 margins slightly revolute ; upper ones lanceolate, more 

 acute, and the margins much revolute. Petioles very 

 short, winged, and fringed with long white hairs. 

 Flowers large, terminating the branches, from 1 to 5, 

 of a bluish rose-colour. Peduncles of a brownish red 

 colour, very hairy and rough, one-flowered, with two 

 leafy bractes about the middle of each. Bractes sessile, 

 lanceolate, bluntish, hairy and strongly fringed. Calyx 

 of 5 sepals, outer ones flat, cordately ovate, acute, rigid, 

 strongly and numerously nerved underneath, hairy on 

 both sides, and fringed with long white hairs ; 2 inner 

 ones concave, membranaceous, pubescent, much veined, 

 and terminated with a sharp mucro. Petals 5, or 

 sometimes increased to 6, obovate with rounded points, 

 much crumpled, margins a little uneven, or slightly 



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