and becoming erect. Bractes fringed, similar to the up- 

 per stipules. Pedicles longer than the bractes, densely 

 clothed with a short grey tomentum. Calyx of 5 sepals ; 

 the two outer ones small, bluntish, hairy, dark green ; 

 the three inner ones ovate, acute, concave, membranace- 

 ous between the angles, the angles marked with red or 

 violet colour, smooth and glossy, slightly hairy. Pe- 

 tals 5, imbricate, white, more or less uneven or crenulate 

 at the edges, roundly obovate. Stamens numerous : fila- 

 ments smooth, yellow: pollen orange-coloured. Style 

 twisted at the base. Stigma large, capitate, papillose. 



We also received the present handsome species from 

 Mr. Miller, of the Bristol Nursery, at the same time as 

 the subject of the last plate ; it is a scarce plant in our 

 collections, we having never seen it in any of the Nur- 

 series about London ; it is readily distinguished from 

 all others to which it is related, by its upright growth 

 and glossy leaves, and the red veins of the calyx ; it 

 must not be confounded with Cistus racemosus of 

 Cavanilles, which is a variety of H. lavandul&folium, ac- 

 cording to Dunal in Decandolle's Prodromus, and is a 

 yellow-flowered species. 



The present species is a native of Spain, JBarbary, and 

 the Canary Islands, and will stand our Winters, if not 

 very severe, in the open ground; it is well adapted 

 for ornamenting rock- work, from its handsome glossy 

 foliage ; its flowers are also produced in succession near- 

 ly all the Summer and till late in Autumn, thriving best 

 in a light sandy soil ; it is also best to have some plants 

 of it in pots, as those can be preserved in frames through 

 the Winter, and can be planted out in Spring, to supply 

 the places of any that may have been killed by frost : 

 young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, any time 

 from July to September, will strike root readily. 



