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HELIANTHEMUM grandiflorum 



Large-flowered Sun- Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol. 7. 

 * Petalis luteis. 



H. grandiflorum, caule sufFruticoso adscendente, ramis piloso-hirsu- 

 tis, foliis superioribus subplanis oblongis pilosiusculis supra viri- 

 dibus subtus nunc viridibus nunc dilute cineruis, stipulis ciliatis 

 petiolo sublongioribus, floribus magnis, calycibus subhirsutis. 

 DC. prod. 1. p. 280. 



Helianthemum grandiflorum. DC. fl.fr. 4. p. 821. Swt. hort. brit. 

 p. 35. n. 64. 



Cistus grandiflorus. Scop. earn. ed. 2. . 648. t. 25. 



Stem suffruticose, much branched, ascending : bran- 

 ches hairy when young, but becoming at length nearly 

 smooth, spotted or tinged with light purple. Leaves 

 opposite, flat, or nearly so, oblong, bluntish, clothed 

 with short closely-pressed hairs, green on both sides, 

 or sometimes a little whitish at the back ; young ones 

 more hairy than the older ones. Petioles short, pubes- 

 cent. Stipules linearly lanceolate, acute, fringed, longer 

 than the petioles. Racemes terminal, nodding before 

 expansion, afterwards becoming erect. Bractes scarcely 

 so long as the pedicles, resembling the stipules, but 

 rather shorter. Pedicles downy, nodding before the 

 expansion of the flowers, then becoming erect, after 

 flowering reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals, a little hairy, the 

 hairs pressed inwards ; two outer ones very small, 

 more hairy than the inner ones, fringed : inner ones 

 ovate, concave, membranaceous between the nerves. 

 Petals 5, large, broadly obovate or obcordate, very 

 much imbricate, of a bright straw-colour. Stamens 

 numerous, unequal in length. Style twisted, about the 



