HELIAN’THEMUM FORMO’SUM. 
~ BEAUTIFUL HELIANTHEMUM, 
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to which /y ee ae LY 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, CISTACEA, 
POLYANDRIA. 
THatamirior”, (3¥@) Artificial divisions 
OF [ED to which MONOGYNIA, 
DECANDOLLE. RE this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 131. ‘ 
_ GENUS. aires eB SEpara beret fe tribus interioribus equalibus 
tria subqeua ETALA quinque, rarius pau- 
ea vel nulla, caducissima, estivati Stamina indefinita. Ovarium 
triquetrum, pluriovulat tum, oe parietalibus. wetigeee nune See 
nunc elongatus, rectus, obliquus, v: vel basi flexus. Sric apitatu PSULA 
trivalyis, unilocularis vel subtrilocularis,. Semina angus, slab albumine 
farinoso, embryone variis modis curvato, vel circumflex 
ECIE S. HELiANTHEMUM FoRMOsuM. Duwaz. CAvLE fruticoso, ramis 
tomentoso-villosis- chacicitbiattallte subpetiolatis obovato-lanceolatis tomen- 
toso-villosis, junioribus incanis, pedunculis eae villosis, calycibus ‘a! 
sepalis. Dunaz in De Candolle Prodromus, y 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, fe ieinatio. SEPALS five, the 
three interior equal, the two outer very small, or only three, equal. Pe- 
TALS five, rarely fewer or none, very deciduous, imbricate in wstivation. 
STAMENS indefinite. Ovary three-angled, with many ovules attached 
to parietal placente. SvyLe sometimes nearly none, sometimes 
elongated, straight, oblique or bent at the base. Sricma capitate. 
Carsute three-valved, one-celled or nearly three-celled. Srxrps an- 
gular, smooth, with a farinaceous albumen, and the embryo curled or 
rolled up in various modes. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, HELIANTHEMUM FORMOSUM. 
Surus erect, much branched, the branches clothed with a whitish 
down, and long hairs intermixed, the older ones, especially in cultiva- 
tion, green and less downy. STIpuLEs none. FLowers in irregular 
cymose racemes at the end of the branches, forming together a kind 
of panicle.. PEDUNCLES one to two inches long, one, two, or three 
flowered, with the same kind of down as the rest of the plant, but with 
more of the long hairs, and bearing at each ramification a pair of 
small deciduous leaf-like bracts. Catyx of three ovate concave se- 
pals, membranous and smooth on the side where they are overlapped 
by the adjoining one, covered on the back with long soft white hairs, 
