HELIANTHEMUM halimifolium. 



Sea Purslane-leaved Sun-Rose. 



Sect. I. HALIMIUM. Calyx 3-sepalus, sepalis aequalibus, rar6 

 5-sepalus, sepalis 2 externis minutis. Petala raro alba, ssnpissime 

 lutea, cuneata, truncata, saepe basi macula atro-sanguinea vel intense 

 lutea notata. Stylus rectus brevis vel subnullus. Stigma capitatum 

 subtrilobum. Semina nigrescentia, minute muricata, pauca, suban- 

 gulosa. Suffrutices vel frutices. Folia opposita trinervia exstipulata 

 pilosa vel tomentosa. Pedunculi l-3-y?on axillares solitarii vel 

 wnbellati, raro paniculati. DC. prodr. 1. p. 267. 



* * Stylo subnullo, stigmate magno. 



H. halimifolium, caule fmticoso erecto ; ramis leproso-candidis, 

 foliis utrinque leproso-candidis basi attenuatis subpetiolatis ovato- 

 lanceolatis acutis undulatis, pedunculis longis ramosis subpani- 

 culatis glabris aut subpilosis, calycibus sericeis 3-4-sepalis raro 

 5-sepalis, sepalis externis angustissimis subulatis. 



Helianthemum halimifolium. DC. prodr. 1. p. 268.? Hort. sub. 

 lond. p. 123. 



Cistus halimifolius. Linn. sp. p. 524. WiUd. sp. pi. 2. p. 1188. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 307. Mill. ic. pi. 290. 



Helianthemum elongatum. Willd. enum. 2. p. 569. Link enum. 2. 

 p. 75. 



Stem 3 to 4 feet in height, shrubby, erect, much 

 branched, densely clothed, with a close pressed canes- 

 cent pubescence : branches opposite, crossing each 

 other. Leaves opposite, oblong, or ovately lanceolate, 

 acute, undulate, concave, the margins curved inwards, 

 attenuated at the base into a kind of petiole, densely 

 clothed on both sides with a close pressed canescent 

 pubescence, obsoletely 3-nerved. Peduncles long, 

 leafy, paniculately branching, smooth and glossy, with 

 a few long slender spreading hairs scattered on them ; 

 lower leaves opposite, upper ones alternate. Pedicles 

 long and slender, more or less hairy. Calyx of 3, 4, 

 or 5 sepals, slightly clothed with a thin silky pubes- 



