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HELIANTHEMTJM stramineum. 



Straw-coloured Sun- Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol.l. 

 ** Petalis albis, roseis, rubris vel dilute sulphureis. 



H. stramineum, caulibus ramosis elongatis procumbentibus apice 

 tomentosiusculo-pubescentibus, foliis planis aut margine vix re- 

 curvis supra viridibus pilosis subtus tomentoso-incanis : inferioribus 

 rotundo-ovatis obtusis: superioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acutius- 

 culis, stipulis linearibus acutis ciliatis petiolo duplo longioribus, 

 racemis multifloris, calycibus striatis glabriusculis, petalis obovatis 

 patentibus distinctis. 



Sujfrutescent, procumbent, very much branched : bran- 

 ches elongated, and spreading round to a considerable 

 distance, thickly clothed with short hairs when young, 

 and the upper part with a canescent tomentum. Leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, flat, or very slightly recurved at the 

 margins, the upper side of a dark green and very hairy, 

 underneath clothed with a close white tomentum : lower 

 ones roundly oval and obtuse ; the upper ones much 

 longer, oblongly lanceolate, and more acute. Petioles 

 short, hairy, flat on the upper side, and rounded un- 

 derneath. Stipules linear, acute, fringed, more than 

 double the length of the petioles, green on both sides. 

 Racemes terminal, many-flowered, nodding before the 

 expansion of the flowers, afterwards becoming erect. 

 Bractes linear, acute, fringed, and hairy, about the 

 length of, or nearly as long as the pedicles. Pedicles to- 

 mentose, and clothed with short hairs, drooping before 

 the expansion of the flowers, erect when they are ex- 

 panded, afterwards reflexed, and more or less twisted. 

 Calyx of 5 sepals ; the two outer ones small, linear, dark 



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