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some inches upwards, the upper part as 
well as the branches and ramules clothed 
with a scattered grayish pubescence. 
Branches nearly filiform, virgate, simple, 
almost erect, leafy for their whole length, 
subfastigiate, all of them bearing axillary 
very short floriferous ramules, along their 
upper part, and producing frequently fas- 
cicles of little leaves (abortive leafy ra- 
mules) in the axils of the inferior leaves. 
Leaves alternate, exstipulate, subcoriace- 
ous, without other nerves but the midrib, 
which is rather prominent on the under 
surface, and forms a filiform groove on the 
upper, inconspicuously pennato-veined, 
scabrous, clothed with a thin scattered 
pubescence on the upper surface, and with 
a thick gray tomentum on the under, lan- 
ceolate-oblong, or oblong-linear, or subli- 
near (in the state of desiccation generally 
more or less revolute at their margins), 
obtuse, very entire, more or less tapering 
from the middle to the base; the cauline 
generally twelve to sixteen lines long, and 
about two lines wide in their greatest 
breadth; those of the branches four to 
nine lines long, and half to one and a half 
lines broad ; those of the abortive ramules 
arrow. 
(peduncles) generally very short (so that 
the flowers, at first sight, seem crowded in 
the axils), erect, slender, generally solitary 
in the axils of the superior leaves both of 
the branches and the main stem ; the infe- 
rior commonly three to seven-flowered, 
y or nowise bifurcate, often having 
a leaf-like bractea at their summit; the 
a = (a M h ae +} ^R * 
mule sometimes about two lines long, and 
bifurcating at its summit. Pedicels ebrac- 
teolated, or more frequently with a minute 
subulate bracteole at their bases, fascicu- 
lated at the summit of the ramule, or dis- 
posed in a short compact corymb, along 
each of its bifurcations, erect, filiform, of 
_ very unequal length; the solitary dichoto- 
mary two to three lines long; the others 
DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW CISTACEX. 
extremely short at the time of flo 
but acquiring finally the size of a 
two. The 
of each partial inflorescence being alone 
petaliferous, polyandrous, and its ovary - 
containing constantly a greater number of - 
ovules; whilst all the other flowers of the 
sepals distinctly two-seriate, tomentose c 
their outer surface ; the two outer minute, 
much narrower, flat, linear, sometimes ad- : 
the exterior (those of the petaliferous flow- i 
ers one line and a half long, and s 
fourths of a line broad; those of the ape- 
talous scarce half a line long at the time 
flowering, but finally acquiring à length 
three-fourths to one line), slightly na* 
tals most commonly none or à 
in no symmetrical manner with bor 
the sepals, deciduous, cuneato "c 
yellow, longer than the calyx, inse 
the receptacle. Receptacle forming 
annular elevation around the 
in the apetalous flowers, 
the petaliferous ones ; filaments capillary, 
:nterior €* 
the interior" — 
unconnected, shorter than " 1 
the oligandrous obreniform and very 
nute; connectivum linear, 
Ovary minute, subglobular, 
pering at the base, unilocular, 
three, immediately parietal, 
terated towards the summit of the 0' 
each of them four-ovulated in the 
