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CISTUS platysepalus.
Broad sepaled Rock- Rose.
Sect. II. Ledonia. Supra fol. 1.
§. 1. Pedunculis unifloris, aut multifloris cymosis, scpalis 5, exter-
nis scepius cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis 5-locularibus.
* Pedunculis basi nudis, sap!} infrd, medium folia opposita geren-
tibus.
C. platysepalus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis sessilibus trinerviis rugosis
utrinque villoso-pilosis, pedunculis cymosis calycibusque villosis,
sepalis acuminatis exterioribus lato-cordatis, petalis obcordatis
distinctis.
Cistus platysepalus. Swt. hort. brit add. p. 468. n. 31.
Stem shrubby, very much branched : branches spreading
in all directions, erect or ascending, thickly clothed
with long spreading villous white hairs. Leaves lanceolate,
or oblongly-lanceolate, sessile, 3-nerved from
the base, rugose, reticulately veined underneath, clothed
on both sides with long villous hairs, the margins
fringed: lower ones bluntish and narrowest;
upper ones broad at the base, ovately lanceolate, many
nerved and acute. Flowers terminal, in a branching
cyme. Peduncles thickly clothed with villous spreading
hairs. Bractes leaf-like, deciduous, ovate or ovately
lanceolate, acute. Pedicles short, scarcely as long as
the calyx, villous. Calyx of 5 sepals, the outer ones
broadly cordate, taper-pointed, villosely hairy on both
sides, and fringed, the margins bent back a little:
inner ones narrower, oblong or ovate, taper-pointed,
concave, membranaceous, villous at the back, and
smooth inside. Petals 5, distinctly spreading, not imbricate,
obcordate, more or less crumpled, narrow at
the base, white with a small yellow spot at the base.
Stamens numerous, about 80, very unequal in length,
overtopping the stigma: filaments slender, smooth and