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HELIANTHEMUM surrejanum. 



Doited-leaved Sun-Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Supra,fol.l. 

 * Petalis luteis. 



H. surrejanum, caule suffruticoso procumbente, foliis oblongis ova- 

 tis ellipticis lanceolatisve viridibus margine vix revolutis : supra 

 hirsutiusculis subtus ramisqne stellate- pubescentibus, racemis 

 multifloris, petalis lanceolatis subdentato-laciniatis, staminibus 

 brevissimis. 



Heliantbemum surrejanum. Mill. diet. n. 15. Pers. syn. 2. p. 78. 

 DC. prodr. 1. p. 280. Spreng. syst. veg. 2. p. 592. Swt. hort. sub. 

 lond. p. 123. Hort. Brit. p. 35. n. 62. 



Cistus surrejanas. Linn. spec. 743. Willden. sp. pi. 2. p. 1202. 

 Smith Eng. hot. 2207. Compend. flor. brit. ed. 4. p. 95. 



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suffruticose, procumbent, much branched, 

 spreading in all directions : branches more or less 

 warted with brownish purple warts, and clothed with 

 fascicles of short stellate hairs. Leaves variable, lower 

 ones nearly round or broadly ovate, others oblong, el- 

 liptic or broadly lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute, 

 green on both sides, but paler underneath, flat, or the 

 margins very slightly re volute, dotted with numerous 

 small dots, thinly clothed with short hairs on the upper 

 side, and with fascicles of short stellate ones on the 

 lower. Petioles hairy, shorter than the stipules. Sti- 

 pules linearly-lanceolate, flat, or their margins slightly 

 reflexed, ciliate, longer than the petioles. Racemes 

 terminal, many-flowered, nodding before the flowers 

 expand, the point involute, but lengthening out and 

 becoming erect after the expansion of the flowers. 

 Sractes short and flat, clothed with short hairs, the 

 margins fringed. Pedicles nodding before the expan- 

 sion of the flowers, erect when in bloom, afterwards 

 reflexed, canescently tomentose, and also clothed with 



