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CISTUS cymosus. 



Cyme-flowered Rock- Rose. 



Sect. I. ERYTHROCISTUS. Supra fol. 3. 

 ** Pedunculis subcymosis: stylo subnullo capitato staminibus bre 

 more. 



C. cymosus, foliis lato-ovatis apice contortis acutiusculis subttis ru- 

 gosis incanis petiolatis, petiolis basi dilatatis sulcatis subvaginan- 

 tibus, pedunculis cymosis 5-10-floris incanis axillaribus termina- 

 libusve. Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 265. 



Cistus cymosus. DC. prodr. 1. p. 265. Swt. hort. brit. p. 34. n. 13. 



Cistus incanus. Smith in Sibthorp's Flora Grceca. #.494. nee aliorum. 



A very handsome small bushy shrub, much branched, 

 the branches ascending, rather short and slender, clo- 

 thed with a rough hairy pubescence. Leaves petiolate, 

 broadly ovate, scarcely acute, the points more or less 

 twisted, underneath rugose and reticulately veined, clo- 

 thed with a short thin hoary canescence, and short hairs 

 intermixed. Petioles dilated at the base and clasping 

 the stem, somewhat winged, more or less tinged with 

 red, and channelled on the upper side. Flowers of a 

 lively red, middle sized or smallish, produced in nume- 

 rous many-flowered cymes. Peduncles hairy and ca- 

 nescent. Bractes oblong, bluntish. Pedicles hairy and 

 canescent. Calyx of 5 sepals, that are ovately lanceo- 

 late and taper-pointed, veined with red lines, hoary 

 and clothed with shortish hairs. Petals 5, obcordate, 

 imbricate, of a bright red, in some plants pale lilac, 

 more or less crumpled from their thin texture. Stamens 

 numerous : filaments yellow : pollen orange-colour. Ger- 

 men tomentose. Style very short, quite hid by the capi- 

 late stigma, which is slightly 5-furrowed, and papil- 

 lose. 



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