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HELIANTHEMUM macranthori. 



Great-lowered Sun-Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol.l. 

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



H. macranthan, caule suffruticoso, ramis procumbentibus tomentosi- 

 usculis, foliis planis ovato-oblongis acutiusculis supr& glabris sub- 

 tils levissime tomentosis pallide cinereis, stipulis pilosiusculis pe- 

 tiolo subaequalibus vel longioribus, calycibus striatis pilosis, petalis 

 distinctis. 



Stem suffruticose, much branched : branches procum- 

 bent, clothed with a thin tomentum, the upper part 

 tinged with purple. Leaves large and flat, ovately ob- 

 long, obtuse, or scarcely acute, the upper side green, 

 smooth, and glossy, or very thinly clothed with hairs, 

 which are mostly in pairs, underneath clothed with a 

 short thin tomentum, besides numerous little bunches 

 of hairs which give a greyish appearance, the hairs are 

 fixed on minute tubercles which occasions a roughness. 

 Petioles hairy, furrowed on the upper side and rounded 

 on the lower. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, acute, frin- 

 ged with long hairs : lower ones about the length of the 

 petioles : upper ones double the length. Racemes ter- 

 minal, nodding before expansion, afterwards becoming- 

 erect and lengthening out. Bractes lanceolate, slightly 

 falcate, fringed with long hairs. Pedicles clothed with 

 a thin tomentum and some longer hairs intermixed, 

 tinged with purple, nodding before the flowers expand, 

 erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5 

 sepals; the two outer ones small, oblongly lanceolate, 

 spreading, and fringed with long hairs ; the three inner 



