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CISTUS creticus. 



Cretan Rock-Rose. 



Sect. I. ERYTHROCISTUS. Supra fol. 3. 



** Pedunculis cymosis aut I-Z-floris; stylo subnulto capitato sta- 

 minibus breviore. 



C. creticus, foliis spathulato-ovatis rugosis scabris tomentoso-hirtis 

 in petiolum brevem attenuatis margine undulatis, pedunculis sub- 

 binatis unifloris, sepalis acuminatis villosis, capsula pilosa. 



Cistus creticus. Linn. spec, l.p.738. Jacq. ic. rar.l. t. 95. Flor.grcec. 

 t. 495. Willd. spec. pi. 2, p. 1186. Pers. syn. 2. p. 75. Hort. Kew. 

 edit. 2. v. 3. p. 306. DC.prodr. 1. p. 264. Spreny. syst. 2. ^. 584. 



A handsome upright dwarf bushy Shrub : branches 

 spreading, thickly clothed with unequal entangled hairs, 

 the younger ones with spreading villous ones. Leaves 

 spathulately ovate, bluntly rounded, attenuated into a 

 sort of petiole towards the base, the lower ones much 

 broader than the upper ones, reticulately veined, rugose, 

 undulate at the margins, of a pale whitish green, or 

 somewhat canescent, tomentosely hairy, the hairs short 

 and in irregularly stellate fascicles. Flowers terminal, 

 solitary, or in pairs, of a purplish red. Peduncles soli- 

 tary, or sometimes binate, densely clothed with woolly 

 hairs, generally one or two flowered . Calyx of 5 sepals, 

 villosely hairy : sepals ovate, concave inwards, tapering 

 to a long slender point, strongly nerved with purple 

 veins : inner ones broadest, more concave, and mem- 

 branaceous at the edges. Petals 5, imbricate at the base, 

 the points distinct, obovate, much undulate and crum- 

 pled, nerved from the base, of a pale reddish purple, 

 with a pale yellow mark on each at the base. Stamens 

 numerous : filaments pale yellow, smooth, unequal in 



