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HELIANTHEMUM racemosum. 



Long racemed Sun-Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol.l. 

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



H. racemosum, caule fruticoso ramoso, rainis erectis teretibus to- 

 mentoso-incanis, foliis petiolatis linearibus vel lineari-lanceolatis 

 margine revolutis supra nitidis subtus incanis, stipulis subulatis 

 in ramis floriferis petiolo longioribus, pedicellis iacanis, calycibus 

 n ervoso-sulcatis violaceo-rufescentibus. 



Heliantbemum racemosum. Dunalin DC. prodr. 1. p. 281. Spreng. 

 syst. 2. p. 593. 



Cistus racemosus. Linn. mant. 76? Lam. diet. 2. p. 25. Vahlsymb. 1 . 

 p. 39. Willden. sp. pi. 2. p. 1208. exclus. syn. Cavan. et Barrel. 



Stem frutescent, much branched, clothed with a 

 brown roughish bark, and marked with rings, where the 

 leaves have fallen : branches erect, cylindrical, clothed 

 with a close-pressed hoary woolliness. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, linear, oblongly or lanceolately linear, acute, 

 channelled on the upper side, the margins revolute: 

 upper side of a bright shining green, quite smooth on 

 the old leaves, but slightly pubescent when young; 

 underneath pennately veined, and clothed with a short 

 thinnish grey woolliness. Petioles clothed with a short 

 dense tomentum, flattened a little on the upper side 

 and rounded below, longest on the young Autumn 

 shoots. Stipules attached to the base of the petioles, 

 subulate, ciliate, the hairs pointing upwards : those on 

 the flowering shoots longer than the petioles ; but on 

 the young Autumn shoots considerably shorter than the 

 petioles. Racemes terminal, very long, clothed with a 

 short dense woolliness, drooping or involute before the 

 expansion of the flowers, afterwards lengthening out 



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