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HELIANTHEMUM Milleri. 



Mr. Miller V Sun- Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol. 7. 

 ** Petalis albis, roseis, rubris vel dilute sulphur eis. 



H. Milleri, caule suffruticoso procumbente, ramis hirsuto-tomentosis, 

 foliis oblongis obtusiusculis plants utrinque viridibus hirsutis, sti- 

 pulis falcatis petiolo longioribus, calycibus hirsutis, petalis imbri- 

 catis. 



Stem suffrutescent, procumbent : branches also pro- 

 cumbent, thickly clothed with short soft woolly hairs 

 and soft down underneath, the points ascending a little. 

 Leaves opposite, flat, dull green on both sides, thickly 

 covered on both sides with stiffish hairs which are ge- 

 nerally in pairs: lower ones of a roundish oval, quite 

 obtuse : the upper ones longer, oblong, or oblongly 

 lanceolate, more acute. Petioles thickly clothed with 

 woolly hairs, scarcely so long as the stipules, flattened 

 on the upper side, and rounded underneath. Stipules 

 somewhat falcate, linear or lanceolately linear, hairy 

 and fringed : lower ones very small, scarcely longer 

 than the petioles, the upper ones very long, about twice 

 the length of the petioles. Racemes terminal, many- 

 flowered, nodding before expansion, and becoming 

 erect as the flowers expand. Bractes similar to the sti- 

 pules. Pedicles clothed with a short tomentum, nodding 

 before the expansion of the flowers, erect when in bloom, 

 afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals; the two outer 

 ones small, linear, obtuse : the three inner ones ovate, 

 concave, acute, strongly 3 or 4-nerved, membranaceous 



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