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HELIANTHEMUM roseum, 



Rose-coloured Sun-Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Supra fol 7. 

 ** Petalis albis, roseis, rulris vel diluti sulphureis. 



H. roseum, caule suffruticoso decumbente, ramis inferioribus glabris 

 nitidis superioribus tomentoso-incanis, foliis rotund ato-ovatis ova- 

 to-lanceolatis seu lanceolate- oblongis obtusis margine revolutis 

 subtus tomentoso-incanis supra viridibus nitidis subbirsutis, sti- 

 pulis lanceolato-linearibus ciliatis apice setosis petiolo duplo lon- 

 gioribus, calycibus membranaceis glabris aut angulis subpilosis, 

 petalis basi imbricatis. 



Helianthemum roseum. DC.prodr. 1. p. 283. Swt. hort. brit. p. 36. 



Cistus roseus. Allion.jl. ped. 2. p. 105. t. 45. /. 4. non Jacquini. 



Stem suffruticose, decumbent, spreading in all direc- 

 tions : branches ascending, smooth and glossy on the 

 lower part, of a purple colour, the upper part clothed 

 more or less with a white tomentum. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, variable, obtuse, with revolute margins, un- 

 derneath clothed with a dense white tomentum, the up- 

 per side green and glossy, but slightly hairy, the hairs 

 forked, or two proceeding from one base, pointing in dif- 

 ferent directions : lower leaves roundly ovate, others 

 ovately lanceolate, the upper ones lanceolately oblong. 

 Petioles about half the length of the stipules, flattened 

 and furrowed on the upper side, and rounded on the 

 lower. Stipules larger than usual, lanceolately linear, 

 fringed, the points setose. Racemes terminal, many flow- 

 ered, nodding before expansion, afterwards erect. Brac- 

 tes lanceolate, ciliate, the points setose. Pedicles clothed 

 with a short canescent tomentum, nodding before the 

 flowers expand, erect when in bloom, afterwards reflex- 

 ed. Calyx of 5 sepals ; the two outer ones very short, el- 

 liptical, fringed : inner ones membranaceous, smooth, 



