CISTUS corbariensis. 



Mountain Rock- Rose. 



Sect. II. LEDONIA. Supra, fol. I. 



1. Pedunculis uniftoris, aut muUifloris cyanosis; sepalis 5, ex- 

 ternis scepius cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis 5-locularibus. 



* Pedunculis basi nudis, scepe infi'd medium folia opposita geren- 

 tibus. 



C. corbariensis, foliis petiolatis subcordatis ovatis acuminatis mar- 

 gine fimbriatis utrinque rugosis leviter glutinosis, pedunculis 

 longis 1-5-floris, petalis basi imbricatis apice patentibus. 



Cistus corbariensis. DC. prodr. 1 . p. 265. Pers. syn. 2. p. 74. 

 Hort. sub. land. p. 123. Link enum. 2. p. 73. Swt. hort. brit. 

 p. 34. n. 15. Spreng. syst. vcg. 2. p. 580. 



Cistus hybridus. Pourr. chlor. narb. p. 30. ncc Vahl. 



Cistus salvifolius 0. DC. fl.fr. 4. p. 813. 



Stem shrubby, erect, much branched, clothed with 

 a brown glossy bark, more or less warted : branches 

 opposite, spreading', thickly clothed with leaves, smooth 

 or slightly pubescent. Leaves opposite, cordate at the 

 base, ovate, tapering to a point, points a little reflexed, 

 reticulately nerved and rugose, of a dark glossy green 

 on the upper side, and stellately pubescent underneath, 

 slightly glutinous, margins fimbriate with tufts of short 

 hairs. Petioles clothed with a stellate pubescence, and 

 fringed with longer hairs, channelled on the upper 

 side and rounded on the lower, widened at the base 

 and clasping the stem. Peduncles I to 5-flowered, ax- 

 illary, slender, stellately pubescent, nodding before the 

 flowers expand, then becoming erect. Bractes deci- 

 duous, cordately ovate, acute, bluntly keeled, pubes- 

 cent and ciliate. Pedicles thickly clothed with a starry 

 pubescence, at first nodding, then becoming erect. 

 Calyx of 5 sepals ; outer ones largest, cordate, acute, 

 the margins a little recurved ; inner ones membrana- 

 ceous, concave, mucronate. Petals 5, spreading flat, 



