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HELIANTHEMUM stramineum j3 multiplex 

 Full-flowered straw-coloured Sun-Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Supra fol. 7. 

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



H. stramineum, caulibus ramosis elongatis procumbentibus apice 

 tomentosiusculo-pubescentibus, foliis planis aut margine vix recur- 

 vis 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. Supra fol. 93. 



jS multiplex, caulibus apice adscendentibus, foliis minoribus, petalis 

 multiplicibus. Supra 94. 



Suffrutescent, much branched : branches slender, pro- 

 cumbent, the points ascending*, warted a little, and 

 thinly clothed with a short woolly pubescence. Leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, smaller than in the single variety, 

 flat or slightly recurved at the margins, the upper side 

 hairy and of a dark green, underneath clothed with a 

 white tomentum : lower ones nearly round, or roundly 

 oval, obtuse ; the upper ones oblong or lanceolate, be- 

 coming gradually narrower upwards, and more acute. 

 Petioles short, flattened on the upper side, and rounded 

 below. Stipules linear, acute, fringed, green on both 

 sides, generally more than twice the length of the peti- 

 oles. Racemes terminal, several-flowered, nodding be- 

 fore the flowers expansion, becoming gradually erect as 

 they expand. Bractes linearly lanceolate, acute, hairy, 

 about the length of the pedicles, or sometimes not quite 

 so long. Pedicles clothed with a woolly pubescence, 

 nodding in the bud state, and becoming erect as the 



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