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HELIANTHEMUM polygalsefolium 



Milkwort-leaved Sun-Rose. 



Sect. II. LECHEOIDES. Calyx 5-sepalus, sepalis externis lineari- 

 bus angustis, interois acutis margine scariosis. Petala lutea. Stylus 

 subnullus vel brevissimus erectus. Stigma magnum capitatum. 

 Ovarium triangulare. Capsula glabra, nitida, trivalvis, unilocularis. 

 Semina rufescentia, parva. Caules perennes herbacei vet suffruticosi 

 ascendentes sen erectly scepe die/to tomi. Folia inferior a opposita ; can- 

 Una alterna, penninervia, breviter petiolata, sessilia, exstipuluta. DC. 

 prodr. 1. p. 269. 



** Pedunculis ramealibus unifloris ebracteatis. 



H. polygalcefolium, caule suffruticoso flexuoso-adscendente ramoso : 

 ramis gracilibus hirsuto-tomentosis subcanescentibus, foliis cau- 

 linis sessilibus alternis acutis ciliato-hirsutis nitidis : inferioribus 

 oblongo lanceolatis : superioribus lanceolato-linearibus, peduncu- 

 lis unifloris foliis longioribus calycibusque hirsuto-canescentibus, 

 sepalis internis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis obcordatis 

 concavis crcnulatis basi imbricatis. 



Perennial. Stems several from the same root, elon- 

 gated, very much branched, suffruticose, flexuose, 

 slender, branching in various directions, ascending : 

 branches thickly clothed with a kind of villous tomen- 

 tum, and a few hairs intermixed. Leaves on the 

 branches, without stipules, alternate, sessile, acute, 

 hairy on both sides, fringed, of a dark glossy green 

 on the upper side, and paler underneath ; channelled 

 on the upper side, the under side covered with tufts of 

 starry hairs and longer ones intermixed : lower leaves 

 oblongly-lanceolate, upper ones narrower, lanceolately 

 linear, acute, concave. Peduncles 1-flowered, opposite 

 to a leaf, and longer than the leaves, clothed with 

 numerous fascicles of starry canescent hairs, and a few 

 longer ones intermixed. Calyx of 5 sepals, the 2 outer 

 ones very small, linear, bluntish, setosely hairy, inner 

 ones ovately-lanceolate, taper-pointed, the points tipped 

 with red ; the inner margin scariose and membrana- 

 ceous, thickly clothed with rather decumbent bristly 



