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CISTUS laxus. 



Broad waved-leaved Rock-Rose. 



Sect. II. LEDONIA. Supra, fol. 8. 



1 . Pedunculis unifloris, aut multifloris cymosis, sepalis 5, exterms 

 scepius cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis 5-locularibus. 



** Pedunculis bracteatis, basi bracteolis caducis parvulis concavis 

 coriaceis subluieis decussatis, infra medium 2 oppositis majoribus. 



C. laxus, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis mar- 

 gine undulatis subdenticulatis subglabris : summis birds, floribus 

 cymosis, pedunculis calycibusque hirsutis, petalis obcordatis valde 

 imbricatis. 



Cistus laxus. DC. prodr. 1. p. 265. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 305. 

 Willd. enum. 2. p. 568. Link enum 2. p. 74. Swt. hort. brit. p. 34. 

 n. 20. Spreng. syst. veg. 2. p. 586. 



Stem shrubby, erect, not much branched : branches 

 erect, or slightly spreading, with a green glossy bark : 

 the young shoots thickly clothed with short woolly down, 

 and long spreading hairs intermixed, more or less vis- 

 cous. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovately lanceolate, 

 taper-pointed, margins undulate, and slightly denticu- 

 late, the teeth terminated by hairs, strongly 3-nerved 

 from the base, reticulately veined on the lower side, and 

 rugose on the upper : old leaves nearly smooth, young 

 ones hairy on both sides and slightly viscous. Petioles 

 clasping the stem at the base, but not connected, chan- 

 nelled on the upper side, furrowed on each side, and 

 keeled at the back. Peduncles axillary, villosely hairy, 

 terminated by a paniculate cyme, clothed with small 

 oblongly lanceolate, concave, acute, keeled bractes at 

 the base, which are deciduous, and fall off before the 

 expansion of the flowers : upper bractes larger, sessile, 

 oblongly lanceolate, acute, concave, hairy, and fringed. 

 Pedicles slender, cylindrical, villosely hairy. Calyx of 

 5 sepals, very hairy: 2 outer ones largest, cordate, 



