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HELIANTHEMUM cheiranthoides. 



Stock-like Sun-Rose. 



Sect. I. HALIMIUM. Supra fol. 4. 

 ** Stylo subnullo, stigmate magno. 



H. cheiranthoides, caule fruticoso erecto ramoso ; ramis jmiioribus 

 villoso-tomentosis incanis, foliis tomentosis cinereo-incanis ob- 

 longo-lanceolatis in petiolum attenuatis, pedunculis brevibus sub- 

 bifloris, calycibus subvillosis 5-sepalis, sepalis externis minutissi- 

 mis. DC.prodr. v. 1. p. 268. 



Helianthemum cheiranthoides. Pers. syn. 2. p. 76. Spreng. syst. v. 2. 

 p. 587. Swt. hort. brit. p. 35. edit. 2. p. 41. 



Cistus cheiranthoides. Lamarck diet. 2. p. 19. 



Cistus halimifolio II. Clus. hist. 1. p. 71. 



A handsome bushy upright branching shrub : bran- 

 ches upright, thickly clothed with woolly hairs, that are 

 seated on dark warts or glands. Leaves opposite, or the 

 upper ones alternate, oblongly lanceolate, three-nerved, 

 attenuated into a sort of petiole at the base, thickly 

 clothed on both sides with a close white woolly pubes- 

 cence, which gives them a white hoary appearance ; the 

 lower ones broadest, and bluntish ; the upper ones nar- 

 row and acute. Peduncles generally 2-flowered, densely 

 clothed with woolly hairs that are seated on small dark 

 warts. Flowers bright yellow, with no spot of red or 

 purple. Calyx of 5 sepals ; thickly clothed with dense 

 wool: the two outer ones very small, spreading: the 

 three inner ones broadly ovate, inclining to heart sha- 

 ped, terminated in a long taper point. Petals 5, ob- 

 cordate, or broadly cuneate, hollow at the ends and 

 uneven, imbricated over each other, spreading flat when 

 fully expanded', of a plain bright yellow. Stamens nu- 



