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CISTUS Clusii. 



Clusiuss Rock- Rose. 



Sect II. LEDONIA. Supra, fol. 1. 



2. Peduncnlis bracteatis, bracteis caducis dccussatis, inferiori- 

 bus minoribus unifloris, axillaribus solitariis vel terminalibus umbel- 

 latis: calycibus 3-5 sepalis; capsulis 5-10 locularibus. 



** Stigmate capitate parvo, stylo cylindrico staminibus subaquali. 



C. Clusii, caule fruticoso suberecto ramoso, foliis subtrinerviis li- 

 nearibus margine revolutis subtus subcanescentibus, floribus sub- 

 capitatis, calyce 3-5-sepalo piloso ; sepalis ovatis acutis exterio- 

 ribus minoribus, capsulis 5-locularibus. 



Cistus Clusii. Dunalin DC. prodr. 1. j>.226. Swt. hort. brit. p. 34. 

 tt.28. 



Cistus Libanotis |3. Lam. diet. 2. p. 18. Desf.fi. atl. 1. p. 412. excl 

 synon. 



Ledon VII. Clus. hist. 1. p. 80. ic. 



Stem shrubby, erect or spreading, much branched: 

 branches spreading, hispidly hairy, when old clothed 

 with a dark brown scaly bark; young ones thickly 

 clothed with unequal, spreading, soft white hairs. 

 Leaves opposite, sessile, connate, clasping the stem, 

 crossing each other, linear, bluntish or rarely acute, 

 three-nerved from the base, more or less rugose, reti- 

 culately veined, margins a little rolled back, entire, 

 young ones hairy on both sides, old ones of a dark 

 green, and rather glossy on the upper side, slightly 

 canescent and tomentose underneath. Panicles brac- 

 teate, at first capitate, afterwards lengthening out, 

 thickly clothed with spreading villous hairs, as are the 

 peduncles, bractes, and calyx. Bractes ovate, acute, 

 lower ones leaf-like, crossing each other, like the leaves, 

 generally longer than the peduncles. Peduncles gene- 

 rally 3 or 4-flowered, with a small ovate, fringed, deci- 

 duous bracte at the base. Pedicles slender, villous. 



