HELIANTHEMUM apenninum 



Apennine Sun-Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol.l. 



** Petalis albis t roseis, rubris vel dilute sulphur eis. 



H. apenninum, caule suffruticoso ramoso, ramis patulis cano-tomen- 

 tosiusculis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-linearibus margine vix revo- 

 lutis subtus tomentosis : supr& glaucescentibus demum glabris, 

 stipulis subulatis petiolo longioribus, calycibus brevissime villosis 

 striatis glauco-cinereis obtusiusculis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 282. 



Helianthemum apenninum. DC.fi.fr. 4.p. 824. Swt. hort.brit.p. 35. 



Stem suffruticose, very much branched, the branches 

 spreading or ascending, clothed with a short white to- 

 mentum. Leaves petioled, oblongly linear, scarcely 

 acute, slightly glaucous on the upper side, becoming 

 smooth and glossy by age, clothed underneath with a 

 short dense white tomentum, the margins very slightly 

 revolute. Petioles short, tomentose. Stipules subulate, 

 longer than the petioles. Racemes terminal, several- 

 flowered, nodding before expansion, erect when in 

 bloom. Flowers of a paper white. Pedicles slender, 

 clothed with a white tomentum. Calyx of 5 sepals, 

 which are clothed with very short woolly hairs ; the two 

 outer sepals very small, linear, obtuse, 3 inner ones 

 ovate, obtuse, concave, striate, more or less tinged with 

 purple. Petals 5, distinctly spreading, of a very thin 

 texture, paper-white, with a small yellow spot at the 

 base, more or less crumpled. Stamens from 40 to 50, 

 spreading, shorter than the style: filaments smooth, 

 yellow. Germen densely tomentose. Style bent near the 

 base, thickening upwards. Stigma large, capitate, pa- 

 pillose. 



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