VIH. CISTACEiE: CISTUS. 



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6. C. ladani'ferus L. The Ladanum-bearing Gum Cistus, or Rock Rose. 



hienlification. Lin. Sp. 737. ; Don's Mill., 1 p. 300. 

 Synonymcs. Ciste ladanifere, F<-.; Ladanum Cisten Rose, Ger.; Ladano, 

 Ital. 



Spec. Char., 8fc. Leaves almost sessile, connate at the 

 base, linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved, upper surface gla- 

 brous, under surface tonientose. Capsule 10-celled. 

 Petals imbricate. {Doiis Mill.) A sub-evergreen 

 shrub. Spain and Portugal, on hills. Height 4 ft. to 

 3 ft. Introduced in 1629. Flowers large, white, 1 in. 

 to 2 in. broad ; June and July. Capsule brown ; ripe 

 in September. 



Varieties. C. /. 1 alb'ifldrus Dec. Prod. i. p. 266., Swt. 

 Cist. t. 94. ; jLedon, i., Clus. Hist. i. p. 78. ic. ; and 

 C. /. 2 maculdtus Dec. Prod. 1. c. (Swt. Cist.; and 

 our fg. 82.) ; C. 1. 3 plenifolius Ait. Hort. Keiv. 'in. 

 p. 305. ; are varieties of this species. 



The leaves are lanceolate, and nearly sessile, of a deep green ; the flowers 

 terminating the branches, solitary, white, and large. The variety C. ladanf ferus 

 macuiatus, which our Jig. 82. represents, is a plant of very great beauty, and 

 no collection should be without it. 



82. C. ladanif. maculitus. 



7. C. (v.) cy'prius Lam. The Gum Cistus, or Cyprus Rock Rose. 



Identification. Lara. Diet., 2. p. 16. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. ,?00. 



Nynonymes. C. ladanil'erus Bot. Mag. 1. 1 12. ; Cistus stenophyllus Link Enum. 1. p. 74.? ; C. iallcl- 



loliiis of some. 

 Ehgravings. Swt. Cist., t. 39. ; and our^^. 83. 



Spec. Char., 8^c. Leaves stalked, oblong-lanceolate, 

 upper surface glabrous, under surface clothed with 

 hoary toraentum. Peduncles generally many- 

 flowered. Petals spotted. Capsules 5-celled. {Don's 

 Mill.) A splendid sub-evergreen shrub. Island of 

 Cyprus. Height 5 ft. to 6 ft- Introduced in IbOO. 

 Flowers white, 2 in. to 3 in. across, imbricated, each 

 petal having a dark rich brownish crimson spot at 

 the base; June and July, d.psule brown; ripe in 

 September. 



One of the handsomest species of the genus, and so 

 closely resembling C. ladanlf'erus, as, in our opinion, to 

 be nothing more than a variety of that species. Young 

 cuttings. Sweet observes, planted under hand-glasses 

 in autumn, will strike root ; but the best way is to raise them from layers 

 or from seed. There was, in 1834, a plant of this species at Minard, in Ar- 

 gyllshire, 7 ft. 9 in. high, with a head 12 ft. in diameter, which is clothed with 

 flowers every year. 



Other Species of Cistus are described in Sweet's Cistiiiece, as nearly equally 

 hardy with the above; but the experience of the winter of 1837-8 has induced 

 us to omit them. Those who intend to treat them as garden plants, and can 

 afford them a Httle protection during winter, will find 36 species, besides 

 varieties, described in the first edition of this work, and several of them 

 figured. Those who intend only to have a collection of showy species, with- 

 out much regard to their names, will have recourse to the mode recommended 

 in the concluding paragraph on the Helianthemum. (p. 61.) The following 

 species or subspecies were found tolerably hardy in the Canterbury Nursery : 

 C. heterophyllus, C. creticus, C. crispus,"C. Cupanifl?n<,?, C. hirsutus, C. laxus, 

 C. villosns, C. oblongifolius, C. undulatus, C. salviaefolius, C. longifolius, C. 

 psilos^palus. 



(^stus cjprius. 



