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HELIANTHEMUM oelandicum. 



Pale green-leaved Sun- Rose. 



Sect. VIII. PSEUDOCISTUS. Supra foL 2. 



H. celandicum, caule suffruticoso procumbente ramoso, foliis lanceo- 

 lato-ellipticis obtusiusculis utrinque viridibus saepe glabris interddm 

 ciliatis petiolatis ; summis sessilibus, racemis simplicibus paucifloris, 

 calycibus subgloboso-ovatis. DC.prodr. 1. p. 276. 



Helianthemum oelandicum. DC. flor.fr. 4. p.Qll. Swt.hvrt.brit.p.tt. 

 *.45. 



Cistus oelandicus. Linn.sp. 741. 



Chamaecistus 2. Clus. hist. p. 73. ic. 



Stem suffrutescent, branching, procumbent, or laying 

 flat on the ground, the young branches hairy. Leaves 

 pale green on both sides, lanceolately elliptic, bluntish, 

 others lanceolate and acute, hairy when young, but 

 becoming smooth by age, the margins fringed ; lower 

 ones petiolate, the upper ones near the flowers sessile. 

 Petioles slender, hairy. Stipules none. Racemes termi- 

 nal, simple, few-flowered. Bractes small, sessile, hairy 

 and fringed, acute. Pedicles slender, very hairy, tinged 

 with purple. Calyx of a roundish oval, consisting of 

 5 sepals, hairy: 2 outer sepals very small, spreading: 

 inner ones ovate, concave inwards, scarcely acute. 

 Petals 5, pale yellow, distinct, spreading, about the 

 length of, or scarcely longer than the sepals, obovate, 

 rounded at the points. Stamens numerous, unequal in 

 length, spreading: Jilaments yellow : pollen orange-co- 

 loured. Germen hairy. Style short, twisted at the base. 

 Stigma capitate, slightly 3-lobed, papillose. 



Our drawing of this pretty little species was made 

 from a plant in the Apothecaries' Company's Garden 



