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HELIANTHEMUM diversifolium 



Different-leaved Sun-Rose. 



Sect: IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol 7. 



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



H. diversifolium, caule suffruticoso adscendente ramoso : ramis 

 tomentosiusculis erecto-adscendentibus, foliis petiolatis supra viri- 

 dibus hirsutis subtus tomentoso-incanis : mferioribus ovalibus ob- 

 longisve obtusis planis : superioribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis 

 margine revolutis, stipulis lato-lanceolatis ciliatis petiolo 2-3-plo 

 longioribus, sepalis pilosis, petalis crenulatis distinctis. 



Stem suffruticose, rough and rugged, much branched, 

 ascending : branches erect or ascending, when young 

 clothed with a thin close-pressed white tomentum, 

 which wears off, and they then become smooth and 

 glossy, and are more or less purple. Leaves opposite, 

 very variable, petiolate, green on the upper side, and 

 thickly clothed with short stiff hairs : underneath clo- 

 thed with a dense white tomentum : lower ones oval, 

 flat, obtuse, others oblong or oblongly lanceolate, the 

 upper ones linearly lanceolate, acute, their margins re- 

 volute. Petioles short. Stipules large, broadly lanceolate, 

 scarcely acute, ciliated with long hairs, two or three 

 times longer than the petioles. Racemes terminal, very 

 long, many- flowered, nodding before the expansion of 

 the flowers, afterwards becoming erect. Bractes lanceo- 

 late, fringed with long hairs, almost as long as the pe- 

 dicles. Pedicles densely tomentose, at first nodding, 

 erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5 se- 

 pals, clothed with long spreading hispid hairs, the two 

 outer ones very small, ovately oblong, bluntish, fringed, 

 the inner ones ovate, concave, acute, strongly nerved, 



