33-, 



CISTUS cyprius. 



Common Gum Cistus, or Rock-Rose. 



Sect. II. LEDONIA. Supra fol. 1. 



2. Pedunculis bracteatis, bracteis caducis decussatis, inferioribus 

 minoribus unifloris, axillaribus solitariis vel terminalibus umbellatis ; 

 calycibus 3-sepalis ; capsulis 5-W-locularibus. 



* Stigmate magno sessili. 



C. cyprius, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis supra glabris snbtfts 

 tornentoso-incanis, pedunculis subumbellatis plurifloris, calycibus 

 3-raro 4-5-sepalis, petalis guttatis, capsulis 5-locularibus. 



Cistus cyprius. Lam. diet. 2. p. 16. DC.prodr. 1. p. 266. Swt.hart. 

 brit. p. 34. n. 25. 



Cistus ladaniferus. Botan. magaz. 1 12. nee aliorum. 



A large bushy shrub. Stem erect, much branched : 

 branches spreading, glossy, viscous. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, connected at the base, and sheathing the stem, 

 oblongly lanceolate, acute, more or less undulate, up- 

 per side smooth and glossy, viscous ; underneath 3-rierved 

 from the base, reticulately veined, and clothed with a 

 dense white tomentum. Flowers terminal, in a many 

 flowered umbel. Peduncles bracteate. Bractes decus- 

 sate, deciduous; the bottom ones smallest, and soon 

 dropping, lanceolate, taper-pointed and keeled : upper 

 ones ovate, concave, taper-pointed, keeled, the margins 

 densely fringed with white hairs. Pedicles fasciculately 

 hairy, viscous. Calyx of 3 sepals, or very rarely of 4 or 

 5 sepals: sepals broadly ovate, acute, concave, the mar- 

 gins scariose or membranaceous, inside punctate, and 

 striped with numerous lines, outside scaly, or clothed 

 with fascicles of very short hairs, having the appearance 

 of scales. Petals 5, broadly cuneate or obcordate, more 

 or less crumpled, imbricate, margins uneven or crenu- 

 late, white, with a yellow spot at the base, and a large 



