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HELIANTHEMUM glomeratum. 



Cluster -flowered Sun- Rose. 



Sect. II. LECHEOIDES. Supra fal. 11. 



* Pedunculis multifloris axillaribus sen terminalibus ;floribus par- 

 vulis confer tis. 



H. glomeratum, caule suffruticoso subdichotomo, ramis subtomen- 

 toso-cinereis, foliis lanceolato-oblongis basi attenuatis subtus prae- 

 cipue incanis, racemis axillaribus terminalibusve multifloris folio 

 minoribus, floribus glomeratis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 269. n. 16. 



Helianthemum glomeratum. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 588. n. 23. Swt. 

 hort. brit. ed. 2. p. 41. n. 17. 



Cistus glomeratus. Lagasca gen. et spec. p. 16. 



Stem suffrutescent, erect, much branched : branches 

 erect, flexuose, densely clothed with short hairs, and 

 white down underneath, forked at the points, and branch- 

 ing again in all directions. Leaves alternate, sessile, or on 

 very short pedicles, deciduous or dropping off in Winter, 

 oblong, the lower ones largest and nearly ovate, obtuse, 

 the upper ones lanceolate and more acute, all attenu- 

 ated towards the base, hoary on both sides, but whitest 

 underneath, thickly clothed on both sides with tufts of 

 short hairs, that are seated on little tubercles, which 

 causes a roughness on the leaf when examined with a 

 lens. Petioles very short, furrowed a little on the upper 

 side and rounded below, densely pubescent. Flowers 

 numerous, crowded in dense clusters in the axils of the 

 leaves, and terminal, so as to appear like an interrupted 

 spike or raceme; in our plant always apetalous, nearly 

 sessile, or on very short footstalks. Calyx of 5 sepals, 

 densely clothed with short hairs that are seated on mi- 

 nute tubercles, of a hoary appearance : two outer ones 

 very small, spreading; the three inner ones ovate, 



