high, somewhat ash-coloured ; floral leaves or bractes alternate, linearly
oblong, often petiolate, 1-2-stipuled, sometimes solitary, entire, or jagged,
oftentimes shorter than the flower-stalks.
23. H . denticuldtum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem branching, upright,
or spreading: branches erect, or ascending, clothed with minute woolly
pubescence, the points ash-coloured; leaves on short footstalks obovately
oblong, somewhat pointed, more or less toothed with short teeth, woolly,
green on the upper side, underneath hoary ; stipules linear, the upper ones
about half the length of the leaves; flower-stalks and calyx opposite to
the bractes; bractes alternate, more or less jagged.0 .—-Native of the South
of France.—Bractes somewhat ovate, often jagged, sessile, without stipules
; calyx before flowering hoary on the outside.
24. H . sanguineum (DC. prodr. p. 273.). Stem herbaceous, short, crimson,
clothed with a viscid pubescence ; leaves on foostalks, opposite, ovate,
blunt, roughish: lower ones without stipules, and crimson underneath ;
upper ones stipulate; stipules oblong-linear, obtuse, petiolate, scarcely
shorter than the leaves; flower-stalks clothed with viscid hairs;| axillary,
or opposite to a leaf, when in fruit, bent backwards.©.—Native of Spain.
—Leaves all opposite ; flower-stalks always axillary, and opposite to the
leaves; sepals striated on the inner side.
25. H. eegyptiacum (Mill. diet. n. 23.) Stem herbaceous, pubescent,
erect, or ascending ; leaves on short footstalks, opposite, linearly oblong,
narrow, bluntish, margins rolled back : underneath pale ash-colour ; upper
ones alternate, stipulate ; stipules linearly subulate ; flower-stalks very slender,
pubescent, opposite to the upper leaves; calyx ovately oblong,.inflated,
including the petals.©.—Native of Egypt, Barbary, and Spain. Cis-
tus aegyptiacus. Jacq. obs. 3. p. 17. t. 68.— Flower-stalks thickened upwards
, sometimes opposite to the short linear bractes ; outer sepals narrow,
short: inner ones 4-nerved, the nerves fringed ; petals lanceolate, very short.
We have frequently raised plants from seeds of the different- annual
species that compose the above Section, but have not met with any of them
since we commenced the present work.
;;,4Sect. V I. Eriocarpum. Supra folio 108.
26. H. Lippii (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem suffrutescent, erect; pubescent,
whitish, somewhat bifid, or forked; leaves opposite and alternate,
on short footstalks, elliptically lanceolate, or linearly oblong, blunt, roughish,
glaueescent, underneath clothed with a white hoariness; stipules narrow,
erect, length of the footstalk1; racemes short; flowers sessile, crowded;
bracteate at the base ; bractes very minute. 1?.—Native of Egypt.—Sepals
pubescent: inner ones 4-5-ribbed, obtuse ; petals ovate, yellow, scarcely
longer than the calyx-; stamens about 10, shorter than the petals.
27. H. sessiliflorum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem suffrutescent, erect;
very much branched : branches pubescent; leaves opposite and alternate,
linear, the margins somewhat rolled back, clothed with a short ash-coloured
tomentum; stipules small, linear; racemes short; flowers sessile ; bractes
minute.F.—Native of dry hills, in the North of Africa.—Cistus sessili-
florus. Desf. f l . atl. 1 . p. 418. 1 .107.—Sepals pubescent, inner ones obtuse;
petals yellow, a little longer than the calyx.
28. H. ruficomum (Spreng. syst. 2. p.589.) Stem suffrutescent, thickly
clothed with canescent starry fascicles of hairs ; leaves on short footstalks-:
lower ones elliptic, obtuse, flat: upper ones narrower, linear, or oblong,
margins somewhat revolute, all clothed underneath with starry bunches of
hairs, stipulate; flowers approximate, racemose; calyx very bristly, brownish;
petals yellow.F-—Native of the North of Africa. — Cistus ruficomus.
Viviani florae libycae, spec. -p. 27. t. 14. f. 5.
29. H. lanuginbsum (Spreng. syst. 2. p. 589.) Stem suffrutescent,
branching ; the whole plant clothed with soft canescent hairs ; leaves opposite,
on short footstalks, elliptic, densely woolly ; floral ones sessile, lanceolate,
alternate, stipulate; flowers in a raceme, all facing to one side,
somewhat reflexed before their expansion ; three inner sepals ovately lanceolate,
3-nerved : the two outer ones linearly lanceolate, all about equal
in length; petals yellow, about equal with the calyx ; capsule triquetrous. F .
—Native of the North of Africa.—Cistus lanuginosus. Viv. fl. lib. sp.
p. 28. t. 14. f. 3.
■-.i 30. H.micrfflni/mm (Spreng. syst. 2. p.588.) Stem suffrutescent, clothed
with starry bunches of hairs; leaves linear, obtuse, clothed with bunches
ofistarry hairs; lower ones on short footstalks, opposite, nearly all flat;
upper ones alternate, with revolute margins: floral ones sessile, linear,
acute: stipules linearly lanceolate, a little longer than the footstalks; flowers
racemose, distant; sepals large, 3-5-nerved, ovate, acute, longer than the
petals ; petals elliptic, the length of the stamens. F •—Native of the North
of Africa.—Cistus micranthus. Viv. fl. lib. p. 28. 1.14. f. 4.—Petals similar
to H. surrejanum, yellow.
31. H. KaMricum. (Delil. fl. mg. 93. t. 31. f. 2.) Stem very much
branched, twisted at the base : branches ascending ; lower leaves opposite,
the others alternate, obovate, margins rolled back, hoary, underneath nerved,
stipulate; racemes with the flowers facing to one side; flowers on short footstalks
: the flower-stalks and calyx villosely hairy ; sepals acute ; capsules
oblong, villosely hairy. F ■—Native of Egypt. Petals connected at the
points.
32. H. confertum (Dunal in DC. prodr.l. p. 274.) Stem suffrutescent,
branching, naked at the base: branches clothed with short ash-coloured
wool; leaves lanceolately elliptic, bluntish, clothed on both sides with short
wo o l: the upper side greenish, underneath hoary ; stipules linear, small;
racemes small, the flowers facing to one side, terminal, or opposite to a leaf;
flowers crowded, nearly sessile ; calyx hairy, inner sepals acute.F.—Native
of the Island of Teneriffe.
33. H. canarihise (Willd. enum. 571.) Stem suffrutescent, procumbent;
branches somewhat woolly, of a whitish ash-colour; leaves on footstalks,
opposite and alternate, somewhat ovately elliptic, hlunt, clothed
with short wool on both sides, glaucous, underneath of a white ash-colour ;
stipules awl-shaped, shorter than the footstalks; racemes terminal, erect;
bractes minute ; flowers on short stalks, that are clothed with hoary wool. F •
—Native of the Canary Islands.—Cistus canariensis. Jacq. ic. 1. t. 97.—
Calyx glaucous : inner sepals ovate, bluntish.
34. H. mucronatum (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 274.) Stem somewhat
erect, spreading : branches woolly, intermixed with hairs, hoary ; leaves on
footstalks, ovate-elliptic, bellied, mucronate: the upper side green, roughish,
clothed with bunches of starry hairs : underneath clothed with hoary wool;
stipules awl-shaped, hairy, shorter than the footstalks; racemes mostly terminal
; flowers on'short footstalks, clothed with wool and hairs intermixed. F .
r-^Native of Teneriffe.—Calyx clothed with silky hairs; sepals broadly
ovate, bluntish.
35. H. distdekium (DC. prodr. 1. p. 284.) Stem suffrutescent, stipu