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HELIANTHEMUM eriosepalon. 



Woolly -calyxed Sun-Rose. 



Sect IX. Eu HELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol.l. 

 ** Petalis aWis y rose is, rubris vel dilute sulphur eis. 



H. eriosepalon, caulibus ramosis procumbentibus tomentosiusculis 

 apice incanis, foliis lanceolatis acutis raargine sub-revolutis utriii- 

 que viridibus stellato-pilosis, stipulis linearibus acutis ciliatis pe- 

 tiolo duplo longioribus, racemo terminal! multifloro, calycibus to- 

 mentoso-pilosis, petalis obovatis crermlatis basi distinctis. 



Helianthemum eriosepalon. Swt. hort. brit. p. 469. n. 96. 



Stems procumbent, rough and rugged, much branch- 

 ed : branches spreading in all directions, slightly tomen- 

 tose, the upper part more densely so and canescent. 

 Leaves opposite, petioled, lanceolate, acute, the margins 

 more or less uneven, a little undulate, and slightly re- 

 volute, green on both sides, and clothed with fascicles 

 of longish hairs, which are stellately spreading. Pe- 

 tioles also clothed with fascicles of hairs, channelled on 

 the upper side and rounded underneath. Stipules linear, 

 acute, fringed with long hairs, green on both sides, ge- 

 nerally about double the length of the footstalks. Ra- 

 cemes long, tomentose, many-flowered, nodding before 

 the expansion of the flowers, afterwards becoming erect. 

 Pedicles densely tomentose, drooping before the expan- 

 sion of the flowers, erect when in bloom, afterwards re- 

 flexed. Calyx of 5 sepals, densely clothed with woolly 

 hairs, the two outer ones very small, lanceolate, blunt- 

 ish, channelled on the upper side, three inner ones ovate, 

 unequal on one side, membranaceous,strongly4rnerved, 

 concave on the upper side and convex below. Petals 5, 

 obovate, crenulate, sometimes emarginate, of a palesul- 



