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HELIANTHEMUM versicolor. 



Various coloured Sun- Rose. 





Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Supra,fol.l. 

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



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H. versicolor, caule fmticoso erecto ramoso : ratnis adscendcntibns 

 steliato-pubescentibus subincanis, foliis oblongis planis aut supra 

 concavis subtus tomentoso-incanis supra viridis glabris, stipulis 

 oblongo-linearibus ciliato-pilosis apice setosis petiolo sublongio- 

 ribus, calycibus breviter tomentosis, petalis imbricatis. 



Helianthemum versicolor. Swt. Hort. brit. p. 36. w. 77. 



Chamaecistus luteus imis Serpylli foliis. Barrel, ic. 440. 



Stems shrubby, erect, from a foot to 18 inches high, 

 much branched : branches spreading, ascendant, clothed 

 with a canescent starry pubescence. Leaves oblong, or 

 oblongly lanceolate, flat, or the upper side concave, 

 upper side roughish, of a glossy green, underneath 

 clothed with a close white tomentum : lower ones oval 

 or rounded, upper ones narrower and more acute, 

 margins in some of the young leaves a little revolute. 

 Petioles short, pubescent. Stipules small, oblongly 

 linear, a little longer than the petioles, hairy, ciliate, 

 and terminated with short bristles. Racemes terminal, 

 several-flowered, curved inwards before flowering, after- 

 wards becoming erect. Bractes oblong, bluntish, hairy 

 and ciliate. Pedicles clothed with a loose white pubes- 

 cence, nodding before the expansion of the flowers, 

 generally erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed. 

 Calyx of 5 sepals, clothed with a short canescent pu- 

 bescence, 2 outer ones very small, spatulate, obtuse ; 

 inner ones ovate, concave, membranaceous, strongly 

 4-nerved, the nerves more or less hairy. Petals 4, 

 rounded, much imbricate, more or less crumpled, va- 

 riable in colour, red, copper-coloured or light flesh- 



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