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HELIANTHEMUM diversifolium p multiplex. 

 Double-lowered different -leaved Sun- Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol. 7. 

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



H. diversifolium, caule suftruticoso adscendente ramoso : ramis to- 

 mentosiusculis erecto-adscendentibus, foliis petiolatis supra viridi- 

 bus hirsutis subtus tomentoso incanis : inferioribus ovalibus oblon- 

 gisve obtusis planis: superioribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis margine 

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

 bus, sepalis pilosis, petalis crenulatis distinctis. Nobis in supra 

 fol. 95. 



a simpliciflora, foliis minoribus, floribus simplicibus. Supra 95. 



multiplex, foliis majoribus, petalis multiplicibus. Supra 98. 



Lady Gardner's variety. Hortulanorum. 



Stem suffruticose, rough, hairy, branched, trailing : 

 branches ascending or ferect, when young clothed with 

 a close-pressed white tomentum, and longer hairs in- 

 termixed. Leaves opposite, variable, petiolate, hairy, 

 green on the upper side : underneath clothed with a 

 short white dense tomentum, flat, or the margins slightly 

 revolute: lower ones oval or nearly round, obtuse, 

 others oblongly ovate, or oblongly lanceolate, some of 

 the upper ones being nearly linear, acute. Petioles short, 

 very hairy. Stipules lanceolate, longer than the petioles, 

 bluntish or scarcely acute, very hairy and fringed. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, many-flowered, nodding before the flow- 

 ers expand, then becoming erect. Bractes lanceolate, 

 hairy and fringed, acute, at first erect, or the point bent 

 a little inwards, after the flower is expanded they be- 

 come reflexed or slightly revolute at the point. Pedicles 

 densely clothed with a short tomentum, nodding before 



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