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HELIANTHEMUM venustum 



Charming Sun- Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Supra,foL 7. 

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



H. venustum, caule suffruticoso adscendente ramoso ; ramis glabris 

 verrucosis apice subtomeritosis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis 

 planis aut margine vix revolutis denticulato-scabris subtus tomen- 

 toso-incanis supra viridibus nitidis, stipulis lanceolatis ciliato-hir- 

 sutis petiolo duplo longioribus, sepalis internis membranaceis : 

 nervis verrucosis liirsutis, petalis valde imbricatis. 



Helianthemum venustum. Swt. hort. brit. p. 36. n. 78. 

 pleno. 



Stem suffruticose, ascending, much branched : 

 branches spreading in all directions, ascending, gene- 

 rally purple, smooth and glossy, more or less warted 

 with small brown warts, upper part slightly tomentose. 

 Leaves oblongly-lanceolate, acute, some of them flat, 

 others with the margins slightly revolute, rough, or 

 toothed with very small teeth, fringed with short hairs, 

 underneath clothed with a close white tomentum, the 

 upper side green and glossy, but clothed with fascicles 

 of short stellate hairs. Petioles short, flattened on the 

 upper side, and rounded on the lower, about half the 

 length of the stipules. Stipules lanceolate, fasciculately 

 hairy and ciliate, the points setose. Racemes terminal, 

 several flowered, nodding before expansion, afterwards 

 erect. JBractes lanceolate, fasciculately hairy and 

 fringed. Pedicles short and slender, slightly tomentose, 

 nodding before the flowers expand, erect when in 

 flower, afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals : the 

 2 outer ones small, elliptically lanceolate, bluntish, 

 keeled, hairy and fringed, the keel warted ; inner ones 

 ovate, concave, acute, membranaceous, strongly 4- 



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