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HELIANTHEMUM microphyllum. 



Small-leaved Sun- Rose. 



Sect. I. HALIMIUM. Suprafol.4. 

 * Stylo subnullo, stigmate magno. 



H. microphyllum, caule suffruticoso ramosissimo : ramis nigro-cine- 

 rascentibus apice tomentoso-hirsutis, foliis subsessilibussaepeobtusis 

 carinatis basi attenuatis obscure cinerascentibus tomentosis, flori- 

 bus terminalibuspaniculatis,paniculis elongatis aphyllis, pedunculis 

 tomentoso-hirsutis, pedicellis 1-2-floris brevissimis, calycibus 3- 

 sepalis hirsutissimis, petalis cuneatis distinctis. 



Helianthemum rugosum. p microyhyllum. DC. prodr. 1. p. 268. 

 Helianthemum alyssoides. /3 microphyllum. DC.jftor.fr. suppl. p. 62. 



Stem suffruticose, elongated,but scarcely strong enough 

 to support its own weight without assistance, very much 

 branched : branches weak, slender, ascending, thickly 

 clothed with small shoots, which are opposite and cross 

 each other, densely clothed with a close pressed dark 

 canescent tomentum, the upper part irregularly, with 

 longish spreading hairs. Leaves numerous, nearly sessile, 

 crowded, small, oblongly ovate, nearly round, or some- 

 times lanceolate, bluntish or scarcely acute, very narrow 

 towards the base, undulate, the sides curved inwards, 

 sharply keeled underneath, very stiff and rigid, densely 

 clothed with a close-pressed dark canescent tomentum, 

 margins rough. Panicle terminal, leafless, very long and 

 loose, thickly clothed with stiffish spreading purple hairs, 

 that are unequal in length, lower branches of the pani- 

 cle opposite, the upper ones alternate. Pedicles very short, 

 torn entosely -hairy, one to three-flowered. Calyx of 3 se- 

 pals, that are ovately lanceolate, concave, very taper- 

 pointed, densely clothed with woolly hairs, of unequal 



