XXXII. CISTACEiE. 



This small family lias taken its name from the Cistuses 1 (figs. 

 344, 345), which have regular flowers generally hermaphrodite, with 

 a receptacle in the form of a surbased cone, bearing from below 



Cistus (Eucistus) creticus. 



Fig. 344. 

 Florifevous branch. 



upwards, the perianth, androceum, and gynseceurn. In the most 

 wide-spread species of this genus, such as Cistus creticus (fig. 344), 

 crispus, albidus, purjjureus, parviftorus, &c, we observe first a calyx 

 formed of five 2 sepals more or less unequal, arranged in quincuncial 



1 Cistus T., Inst., 259, t. 136. — L., Sen., n. 

 673. — Adans., Fam. des PI., ii. 443. — J., Gen., 

 n. 673. — G.EETN., Fruct., 370, t. 76. — Lamk., 

 Diet., ii. 12; Suppl., ii. 271; III., t. 477.— 

 Pouer., Mist, des Cistes (ex Clos, in Mem. 

 Acad. Tout, et Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr., v. 291). — 

 Dun., in DC, Prodr., i. 263. — Tuitr., in Diet. 

 Sciences AW., At 1., t. 190. — Spach, in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat., ser. 2, vi. 357 ; Suit, a Buffon, vi. 84. — 

 EiNdl., Gen., n. 5028. — Payee, Organoy., 15, 



t. 3 ; Fam. Nat., 144.— B. H., Gen., 113, n. 1. 

 — Willk., Ic. Hispan., ii. t. 75-99. — PL., in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. 'de Fr., ix. 509. — Clos, in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr., ix. 519. — Schnizl., 

 Icon., fasc. ix. t. 188. 



2 There are only three in C. ladaniferus L., 

 cyprius Lamk. and laurifolius L., types of the 

 genus Ladanium Sl'ACH {Joe. cit., 366, t. 17, 

 figs. 1-4). 



