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CISTUS Cupanianus. 

 Heart-leaved Rock-Rose. 



Sect. II. LEDONIA. Supra fol 1. 



. 1. Pedunculis unifloris, aut multifloris cymosis; sepalis 5, ex- 

 ternis s&pius cordatis acuminatis; capsulis 5-locularibus. 



* Pedunculis bast nudis, scepe infra medium folia opposita gerenti- 



C. Cupanianus, caule erecto, foliis petiolatis cordato-ovatis acuiis 

 rugosis reticulato-venosis gupra scabris subtus fasciculato-pilosis 

 margine fimbriatis, pedunculis pilosis 2-3-floris, sepalis villosis 

 acuminatis, petalis imbricatis. 



Cistus Cupanianus. Presl. ex Spreng. syst. v. 4. par. 2. p. 206. 



Stem shrubby, upright, much branched : branches 

 spreading*, when young slightly viscous, and clothed 

 with long spreading white hairs, which wear off by age, 

 and they then become smooth and brown. Leaves op- 

 posite, petiolate, cordately ovate, acute, flat, more or 

 less undulate at the margins, roughish, occasioned by 

 the little tubercles on which the fascicles of hairs are 

 fixed, strongly pennately nerved underneath, rugose, 

 reticulately veined, of a dark green, and nearly smooth 

 on the upper side, paler underneath, and thickly clo- 

 thed with fascicles of hairs, as are the margins, where 

 they are seated on little tubercles, which gives the ap- 

 pearance of being denticulate or fimbriate. Petioles 

 furrowed on the upper side, and rounded on the lower, 

 broadest at the base, hairy. Peduncles longish, axil- 

 lary, 2 or 3- flowered, thickly clothed with bunches of 

 hairs spreading in various directions. Bractes 4 at the 

 base of the peduncle, lanceolate, acute, opposite, cross 

 ing each other, and a small deciduous one at the base 

 of the pedicles. Pedicles hairy, nodding before the ex- 



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