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HELIANTHEMUM Isevipes. 



Cluster-leaved Sun- Rose. 



Sect. VII. FUMANA. Supra, fol. 16. 

 ** Foliis aUernis stipulatis. 



H. l&vipes, caule fruticoso ramosissimo adscendente; ramis graci- 

 libus patentibus, foliis stipulatis setaceis glaueis subglabris, gem- 

 mis foliaceis axillaribus, stipulis filiformibus longis, pedunculis 

 longis racemosis secundis, pedicellis glabris basi bracteatis, caly- 

 cibus hirsutis, petalis obovatis distinctis. 



Helianthemum laevipes. DC. prodr. 1. p. 275. Willd. enum. 570. 

 Pers. syn. 2. p. 76. Swt. hort. brit. p. 35. n. 37. Spreng. syst. veg. 2. 

 p. 591. 



Cistus Isevipes. Linn, sp.pl. 739. Willden. sp.pl. 2. p. 1190. Jacq. 

 hort. vind. 2. p. 74. t. 158. Botan. magaz. 1782. Ger. gallo- 

 prov. p. 394. w. 6. /. 14. 



Stem shrubby, very much branched, ascending : 

 branches very slender, rigid and easily broken. Leaves 

 alternate, stipulate, bristle-shaped, nearly cylindrical, 

 obtuse, with a short sharp point, succulent, of a very 

 blue glaucous colour. Stipules subulate, acute, not half 

 the length of the leaves : in the axil of each large leaf is a 

 tuft of smaller ones, which belongs to a young shoot, but 

 many of which never come to perfection. Peduncles ter- 

 minal, racemose, often panicled, villosely hairy, at first 

 nodding, but as the flowers expand, considerably 

 lengthened and becoming straight. Bractes at the base 

 of the pedicles, and alternating with them, obtuse, 

 broadish at the base, the lowermost largest and gradually 

 decreasing upwards. Pedicles quite smooth, purplish, 

 all leaning to one side, nodding before the flowers ex- 

 pand, erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed. Calyx 

 of 5 sepals, a little twisted before opening ; 2 outer ones 

 roundly oblong, blunt, hairy, and fringed : inner ones 

 ovate, scarcely acute, concave, strongly 4-nerved, with 

 scariose membranaceous margins, very hairy. Corolla 



