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PURPLE-FLOWERED GUM CISTUS, Cistus purpureas. 



Gardens, walls. Requires dry, well-drained soil. June, July. 



Flowers reddish-purple, large, terminal, 1-6 together; peduncles short, 

 hairy, sheathing stem ; bracts sessile, foliaceous, pubescent, broad, acute, 

 concave and connate at base ; Calyx hairy ; Petals 5-0, obovate or cuneate, 

 imbricated, more or less crumpled, yellow spot at base, above which is a 

 large, velvety, maroon blotch, slightly branched ; Fruit a capsule. 



Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, wavy, obtuse or acuminate both ends, 

 wrinkled, reticulate ; petioles short, hairy, sheathing the stem ; dark green. 



A sub-evergreen shrub, 2-4 ft. ; much branched ; Branches erect, with 

 brownish pubescence. 



Introduced from the Levant, 1659. 



SHOWY SUN ROSE, Helianthemum formosum. 



Gardens. June. This beautiful bushy shrub thrives well in a rich, dry 

 soil on sunny banks or rockeries. It may be propagated by division in 

 October or April; by cuttings, 1-2 ins. long, in well-drained pots of sandy 

 soil in cold frame in August or September; and by seeds in bed of light 

 soil outdoors in April. 



Floivers yellow, in a raceme ; peduncles villous ; Sepals 5 ; Petals 5, large, 

 marked with purplish-brown spot at base ; Stamens numerous, hypogynous ; 

 Ovary superior ; Fruit a capsule. 



Leaves opposite, obovate-lanceolate, shortly petiolate, entire, three-nerved, 

 tomentosely villous ; young ones hoary. 



An evergreen shrub, 4 ft. ; erect, much branched ; Branches canescent. 



Introduced from Portugal, 1780. Specific name from Gr. helios, the 

 sun, anthemon, a flower; generic name from L. formosum, beautiful. 



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