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CISTUS saivifolius. 



Sage-leaved Rock- Rose. 



Sect. II. LEDONIA. Suprafol.l 



1 . Pedunculis unvfloris, aut multifloris cymosis ; sepalis 5, exter- 

 nis stepius cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis 5-locularibus. 



* Pedunculis basi nudis, scep infrd medium folia opposita geren- 

 tibus. 



C. saivifolius, foliis petiolatis ovatis obtusis rugosis subtus tomento- 



sis, pedunculis Jongis tomentoso-albicantibus unifloris superne ar- 



ticulatis solitariis. DC.prodr. 1. p. 265. 

 Cistus saivifolius. Linn. spec. 738. Willden. sp.pl. 2. p. 1184. Pers. 



syn. 2. p. 75. Cavan. ic. 2. p. 31. 1. 137. Jacq. coll. 2. p. 120. t. 8. 



Spreng. syst. 2. p. 586. Smith Flor. gr&c. t. 497. 



iSto? shrubby, compact, much branched; branches erect 

 or spreading,densely clothed with bunches of woolly hairs 

 when young, but losing them and becoming rough when 

 older, the roughness occasioned by the little tubercles on 

 which the hairs have been seated . Leaves petiolate, ovate, 

 obtuse or rounded at the points, becoming narrow to- 

 wards the base, more or less rugose, reticulately veined, 

 clothed with fascicles of short hairs on the upper side, 

 and of woolly ones underneath, of a pale green colour, 

 hoary when young, margins sometimes a little undulate, 

 clothed all round with stellate tufts of hairs. Petioles 

 short and broadish, channelled on the upper side, and 

 rounded below, green or sometimes purple, slightly- 

 winged. Peduncles axillary, jointed, one-flowered, dense- 

 ly clothed with short woolly hairs. Bractes 2 or 4 near 

 the base of the peduncle, opposite, broadly lanceolate 

 or ovate, acute. Calyx of 5 sepals, tuberculately rough, 

 clothed with short hairs, and fringed with stellate bunch- 

 es : 3 outer ones broadly cordate, acute, spreading at the 

 points : the 2 inner ones ovate, concave, taper-pointed. 



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