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IIELIANTHEMUM variegatum 



Variegated-flowered Sun-Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Supra fol. 7. 

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



H. variegatum, caule suffruticoso procumbente : ram is tomcntosis 

 subincanis diftuso-procumbentibus, foliis lanceolatis acutis plani- 

 usculis : subtus tomentoso-incanis ; supra viridis subscabris, sti- 

 pulis linearibus ciliatis petiolo longioribus, calycibus breviter to- 

 mentosis subviolaceis, petalis undulatis. 



Helianthemum variegatum. Swt. hort. brit. add. p. 469. n. 95. 



Stem suffruticose, much branched : branches procum- 

 bent, spreading in all directions, their points ascend- 

 ing, densely clothed with short white wool. Leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate, acute, flat, or the margins some- 

 times very slightly revolute ; underneath clothed with 

 a dense white tomentum, the upper side channelled, of 

 a glossy green, but clothed with a few close pressed 

 procumbent hairs, which gives them a slightly fringed 

 appearance, a little roughened, occasioned by the innu- 

 merable small punctures with which the leaf is covered. 

 Stipules linear, bluntish, or sometimes acute, fringed 

 with small hairs, a little longer than the petiole. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, many-flowered. Bractes linear, acute, 

 fringed. Pedicles densely tomentose, nodding before 

 the flowers expand, erect or a little declining when in 

 flower, after flowering reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals, 

 clothed with a short thin tomentum: 2 outer sepals 

 small, oblong, bluntish, hairy : inner ones ovate, ob- 

 tuse, concave, membranaceous, of a violet colour, 

 strongly 4-nervt,d, the nerves slightly hairy. Petals 5, 

 rounded, imbricate, more or less crumpled and undu- 

 late, the sides more or less bent inwards, beautifully 

 variegated with white and rose-colour. Stamens about 



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