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HELIANTHEMUM Fumana, 



Heath-like Sun-Rose. 



Sect. VII. FUMANA. Calyx ante anthesin apice tortus 5-sepalus, 

 sepalis externis angustis parvulis, internis 3 ovato-acuminatus 

 4-5-venosis margine scariosis. Petala lutea parva calyce subduplo 

 longiora. Stamina pauca. Stylus rectus staminibus sublongior, 

 per anthesin obliquus, post anthesin suberectus. Stigma capita- 

 turn, fimbriatum, sub 3-lobum. Capsula 3-valvis, aperta patula ; 

 semina nigrescentia vel rufescentia angulosa pauca. Caules suffru- 

 ticosi. Folia linearia sessilia aut subsessilia, angusta. Pedicelli 

 uniflori, ante anthesin cernui, per anthesin erecti, post anthesin re- 

 flexi. 



* Foliis alternis exstipulatis. 



H. Fumana, caule suffruticoso ramoso tortuoso subdifluso erecti- 

 usculo ; ramis inferioribus procumbentibus, foliis alternis linear- 

 ibus margine pilosis scabriusculis subinvolutis : iuferioribus bre- 

 vibus confertis; superioribus sparsis longioribus, pedunculis 

 solitariis unifloris rar6 ramealibus saepius suboppositifoliis termi- 

 nalibusve folio longioribus, capsulis apertis nudis. DC.prodr.I. 

 p. 274. 



Helianthemuni Fumana. Mill. diet. n. 6. Swt. hort. brit. p. 35. n. 35. 



Cistus Fumana. Linn. spec. 740. Desf.fl. atl 1. p. 414. t. 105. 



Stem suffruticose, much branched, more or less twist- 

 ed, spreading or nearly erect : lower branches procum- 

 bent, or horizontally spreading : upper ones erect or 

 ascending, thickly clothed with short downy hairs. 

 Leaves alternate, linear, fleshy, bluntish, the margins 

 roughish, thinly hairy, slightly curved inwards : lower 

 ones very short and crowded ; upper ones much longer 

 and more scattered. Stipules and Bractes none. Pe- 

 duncle solitary, 1 -flowered, either terminal, or opposite 

 to a leaf by the side of the branch, longer than the leaf, 

 densely clothed with short woolly hairs, and a few 

 longer ones intermixed, erect before flowering and 

 when in bloom, afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals, 



