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CISTUS platysepalus. 



Broad sepaled Hock- Rose. 



Sect. II. LEDONIA. Supra fol. I. 



. 1. Pedunculis uniftoris, aut multifloris cymosis, sepalis 5, exter- 

 7iis scepius cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis 5-locularibus. 



* Pedunculis basi nudis, scepi) infrd, medium folia opposita geren- 

 tibus. 



C. platysepalus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis sessilibus trinerviis rugosis 

 utrinque viiloso-pilosis, pedunculis cymosis calycibusque villosis, 

 sepalis acuminatis exterioribus lato- cordatis, petalis obcordatis 

 distinctis. 



Cistus platysepalus. Swt. hort. brit add. p. 468. n. 31. 



Stem shrubby, very much branched : branches spread- 

 ing in all directions, erect or ascending, thickly clothed 

 with long spreading villous white hairs. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, or oblongly-lanceolate, sessile, 3-nerved from 

 the base, rugose, reticulately veined underneath, clo- 

 thed on both sides with long villous hairs, the mar- 

 gins fringed : lower ones bluntish and narrowest ; 

 upper ones broad at the base, ovately lanceolate, many 

 nerved and acute. Flowers terminal, in a branching 

 cyme. Peduncles thickly clothed with villous spread- 

 ing hairs. Bractes leaf-like, deciduous, ovate or ovately 

 lanceolate, acute. Pedicles short, scarcely as long as 

 the calyx, villous. Calyx of 5 sepals, the outer ones 

 broadly cordate, taper-pointed, villosely hairy on both 

 sides, and fringed, the margins bent back a little: 

 inner ones narrower, oblong or ovate, taper-pointed, 

 concave, membranaceous, villous at the back, and 

 smooth inside. Petals 5, distinctly spreading, not im- 

 bricate, obcordate, more or less crumpled, narrow at 

 the base, white with a small yellow spot at the base. 

 Stamens numerous, about 80, very unequal in length, 

 overtopping the stigma : filaments slender, smooth and 



