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HELIANTHEMUM croceum. 



Saffron-coloured Sun- Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Supra fol. 7.*Pctalis luteis. 



H. croceum, caule fruticoso subprocumbente ramoso : ramis simpli- 

 cibus erectiusculis tomentoso-canescentibus, foliis tomentosiuscu- 

 lis subtus canescentibus suprk glaucis margine revolutis : inferi- 

 oribus suborbiculatis ; mediis ellipticis o bin sis ; superior! bus lance- 

 olatis acutiusculis, stipulis bracteisque erectis lineari-oblongis vil- 

 losis apice setosis subvirescentibus, calycibus glauco-flavescenti- 

 bus minute pubescentibus, petalis valde imbricatis. 



Helianthemum croceum. DC. prodr. I. p. 279. Pcrs. syn. 2. p t 79. 

 Swt. hort. sub. lond. p. 124. Hort. brit. 35. n. 56. 



Cistus croceus. Desf.fi. ail. 1. p. 422. t . 110. 



Stems shrubby, procumbent, or sometimes nearly up- 

 right, very rough and rugged : branches numerous, sim- 

 ple or rarely branched, erect or nearly so, when culti- 

 vated in a pot or in poor gravelly soil ; but in richer 

 soil the branches are very long, procumbent, their points 

 ascending, and spreading round to a great distance in 

 all directions, densely clothed with a white woolly pu- 

 bescence. Leaves of a silky appearance, densely clothed 

 with a white starry pubescence, of a greyish white un- 

 derneath and of a glaucous colour on the upper side, 

 margins slightly revolute ; the small lower leaves nearly 

 orbicular or rounded, the middle ones elliptic or ob- 

 long, obtuse ; upper ones nearly lanceolate and more 

 acute. Petioles short, stellately pubescent, the pubes- 

 cence close-pressed. Stipules linear, linearly-oblong qr 

 lanceolate, of a greenish colour, clothed with spreading 

 villous hairs, the margins more or less fringed, and the 

 points tipped with bristly hairs, lower ones very small, 

 upper ones elongated. Racemes terminal, 3 to 7-flower- 

 ed, curved inwards before flowering, afterwards becom- 

 ing erect. Bractes linearly oblong, nearly as long as the 



