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CJSTUS monspeliensis. 



Montpelier Rock- Rose. 



Sect. II. LEDONIA. Supra, fol. 1. 



. 1. Pedunculis uniftoru, uut multifloris cymosis; sepalis 5, ex- 

 ternis scepius cordatis acuminatis; capsulis b-locularibus. 



* Pedunculis basi nudis, scepd infra medium folia opposita geren- 

 tibus. 



C. monspeliensis, caule erecto ramoso, foliis angusto-lanceolatis ru- 

 gosis trinerviis viscosis subtus reticulatis sessilibus, pedunculis 

 terminalibus villosis subcymosis, sepalis parvis villoso-viscosis, 

 petalis obovato-cuneatis basi imbricatis. 



Cistus monspeliensis. Linn. spec. 737. DC. prodr. I. p. 265. 

 Willden. sp. pi 2. p. 1184. Pers. syn. 2. p. 75. Hart . Kew. ed. 2. 

 v. 3. p. 305. Flor. grac. t. 4i)3. 



Stem shrubby^ erect, straight, clothed with a brown 

 glossy bark, branching : branches erect, hairy, and 

 slightly viscous. Leaves opposite, sessile, narrowly 

 lanceolate, acute, or scarcely obtuse, very much rugose 

 or wrinkled, three-nerved from the base, underneath 

 reticulately wrinkled, viscous, covered on both sides 

 with tufts of short brown hairs and long simple ones 

 intermixed, of a dark green on the upper side, and of a 

 brown rusty colour underneath ; those at the base of 

 the peduncles broader at the base, more strongly nerved 

 and sharper pointed. Peduncles terminal, on the small 

 shoots 3, 4, and 5-flowered, on the terminal ones cy- 

 mose, and from 10to20-flowered, thickly clothed with 

 spreading unequal clammy hairs, as are the pedicles 

 and sepals. Pedicles short, scarcely as long as the 

 sepals. Calyx of 5 sepals, the outer ones rather largest, 

 ovate, acute, clammy and thickly clothed with long 

 spreading hairs ; inner ones narrower, concave, sharper 

 pointed, also very hairy. Petals 5, obcordate, or 



