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HELIANTHEMUM procumbens. 



Procumbent Sun-Rose. 



Sect. VII. FUMANA. Suprafol. 16* * Foliis altcrnis exstipulatis. 



II. procumbens, caule suffruticoso procumbente ramoso, ramis elon- 

 gatis junioribus canescentibus, foliis alternis linearibus sublaxis 

 margine ct subtus pilosis : pilis strigosis, pedunculis subaxiliari- 

 bus folio brevioribus, capsulis apertis semina gerentibus. Dunal 

 ined. in DC. prodr. 1. p. 275. 



Helianthemuin procumbens. Spreng. syst> 2. p. 51)0. Swt. hort. brit. 

 p. 35. Barrel, ic. t. 445. 



Cistus hnmilis sive chamsecistus erica3 folio humilior. Magn. lot. 

 p. 69. 



Stem suffruticose, procumbent, clothed with a brown 

 glossy bark, much branched ; branches elongated, pro- 

 cumbent, canescent when young, and thickly clothed 

 with short white down. Leaves alternate, linear, loosely 

 spreading, rather succulent, scarcely acute, the points 

 slightly curved inwards, margins and underside clothed 

 with short strigose hairs. Stipules and Bractes none. 

 Peduncle short, axillary, solitary, purplish, slightly 

 pubescent, erect when in bud, and when the flower is 

 expanded, afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals, 

 twisted at the point before expansion, 2 outer ones 

 narrow, linear, acute, more than half the length of the 

 inner ones, which are ovate, concave, taper-pointed, 

 3 or 4-nerved, the nerves purplish, tubercled, and 

 clothed with very short hairs. Petals 5, broadly obo- 

 vate, imbricate, of a bright yellow. Stamens about 20 

 bearing anthers, besides a few sterile ones : filaments 

 smooth, pale yellow. Germen glossy, slightly pubes- 

 cent. Style smooth, a little bent at the base, thickening 

 upwards. Stigma capitate, fimbriate, slightly 3-lobed. 



