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HELIANTHEMUM candidum, 



White-leaved Sun- Rose. 



Sect. I. HALIMJUM. Supra, fol. 4. 

 ** Stylo subnnllo, stigmate magno. 



H. candidum> caule fruticoso erecto ; ramis kproso-candidis, foliis 

 utrinque ieproso-candidis lanceolato-obovatis basi attenuatis sub- 

 petiolatis planis supra pilosis subtus papilloso-scabris subtri- 

 nerviis ; floralibus oppositis sessilibus utrinque viridibus, pechm- 

 culis longis subpaniculatis glabris vel parce pilosis, catycibus 3-5- 

 sepalis acutis villoso-pilosis, petalis valde imbricatis. 



Stem shrubby, erect, much branched, clothed with a 

 brown warted bark : branches erect, or slightly spread- 

 ing, densely clothed with a close pressed white tomen- 

 turn, and a few long spreading hairs intermixed. 

 Leaves opposite, lanceolate, or lanceolately obovate, 

 bluntish, or scarcely acute, flat, or the margins of the 

 round leaves folded inward, attenuated at the base into 

 a sort of footstalk, clothed on both sides with a dense 

 white tomentum, and long spreading white hairs on the 

 upper side; underneath slightly 3-nerved, and very 

 rough, occasioned by small tubercles, on which grow 

 short tufts of hairs ; those on the flower stems, opposite, 

 green on both sides, more strongly 3-nerved, with a few 

 long spreading hairs on the upper side, and tufts of 

 short hairs seated on little rough tubercles underneath. 

 Flower-stems long, paniculately branching, smooth and 

 glossy, or a few hairs scattered here and there. Bractes 

 elliptically lanceolate, acute, keeled at the back. Pe- 

 dicles glossy, slightly warted. Calyx varying, with 3, 4, 

 or 5 sepals ; outer small sepals spreading, linear, scarce- 

 ly acute, smooth and glossy ; inner ones lanceolately 

 ovate, concave, taper-pointed, with membranaceous 

 margins, villosely hairy, more or less tinged with 



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