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HELIANTHEMUM punctatum. 



Spot-flowered Sun- Rose. 



Sect. III. TUBER ARIA. Supra fol. 18. 



** Annua,foliis superioribus scepd stipulates, racemis sccundis ter- 

 minalibus. 



H. punctatum, caule herbaceo ramoso dichotomo tomentosiusculo- 

 pubescente subcinereo, foliis oblongis penninerviis viridi-cinereis 

 breviter piloso-scabriusculis ; pilis stellatis minimis : inferioribus 

 oppositis obtusis : superioribus alternis acutiusculis stipulatis, 

 racemis longis pubescentibus cinereis, petalis obovatis crenulatis 

 distinctis. 



Heliantheraum punctatum. Pers. syn. 2. p. 77. Willd. enum. 2. p. 570. 

 DC.prodr. 1. p. 271. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 588. Swt. hort. brit.p. 35. 



Cistus punctatus. Willden. spec.pl. 2. p. 1 199. 



Annual. Stem herbaceous, very much branched from 

 the base, the centre stem erect: branches spreading, 

 canescent, generally forked, spreading, the points ascend- 

 ing, thickly clothed with stellate fascicles of short hairs. 

 Leaves petiolate, of a greyish colour, strongly penni- 

 nerved underneath, with 5 to 8 prominent nerves, also 

 clothed with starry bunches of short hairs : lower ones 

 opposite, oblong, bluntly rounded, the upper ones alter- 

 nate, narrower, and the points more acute. Petioles 

 flattened on the upper side, and slightly keeled on the 

 lower, also clothed with little stellate bunches of hairs. 

 Stipules unequal in size, lanceolate, acute, clothed with 

 the same sort of hairs, and fringed. Racemes terminal, 

 leafy or bracteate, erect, in our plants many-flowered. 

 Flowers all leaning to one side. Pedicles slender, erect, 

 clothed with a short hoary pubescence, each opposite to 

 a leaf or bracte. Calyx of 5 sepals, thickly clothed with 

 a short canescent pubescence, the two outer ones small, 

 spathulate, narrow at the base, the three inner ones 



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