XXXIT. CISTACE A. 

This small family has taken its name from the Cistuses' (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. 

Fie. 344. 
Floriferous branch. 
upwards, the perianth, androceum, and gynæceum. In the most 
wide-spread species of this genus, such as Cistus ereticus (fig. 344), 
crispus, albidus, purpureus, parviflorus, &e., we observe first a calyx 
formed of five’ sepals more or less unequal, arranged in quincuncial 

t. 3; Fam, Nat., 144.—B. H., Gen., 113, n. 1. 
—Witik., Ic. Hispan., ii. t. 75-99.—Px., in 
Bull, Soc. Bot, de Fr., ix. 509.—Cutos, in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr., ix. 519.—ScOHNIZL., 
Icon., fase. ix, t. 188. 
1 Cistus T., Inst., 259, t. 136.—L., Gen., n. 
673.—ADANS., Fam, des PL, ii, 443.—J., Gen., 
n. 673.—GæRIN., Fruct., 370, t. 76.—LAMK. 
Dict., ii. 12; Suppl. ii, 271; Zl, t. 477.— 
Pougr., Hist. des Cistes (ex Cios, in Mém. 
Acad. Toul. et Bull, Soc, Bot. de Fr., v. 291).— 
Dux., in DC., Prodr., i, 263,—TurpP., in Dict. 
Sciences Nat., Atl., t. 190,—SPACH, in Ann, 
Se. Nat., sér. 2, vi. 357 ; Suit. à Buffon, vi. 84.— 
Enpt., G'en., n. 5028.—PAYER, Organog., 15, 

2 There are only three in C, ladaniferus L., 
cyprius LAME, and laurifolius L., types of the 
genus Ladanium Spracu (loc. cit, 366, t. 17, 
figs. 1-4). : 
