CISTUS undulatus.
Wave-leaved Rock-Rose.
Sect. I. E rythrocistus. Supra fol. 3.
* Pedunculis unifloris, axillaribus aut terminalibus, solitariis um-
bellatisve ; stylo cylindrico soepè staminibus longiore ; stigmate capitato
-5-sulcato.
C. undulatus, foliis subsessilibus aut in petiolum brevem attenuatis
margine undulatis rugosis scabris utrinque pilosis subeanescentibus;
inferioribus elliptiöo-oblongis acutis basi attenuatis trinerviis : su-
perioribus linearibus basi connatis, pedunculis solitariis 1-3-floris,
sepalis longe acummatis villosis, capsula rotundo-ovata adpresse
sericeo-pilosa.
Cistus undulatus. Dunal in DC.prodr. «. 1. p. 264. n.8 . Swt. hört,
brit. edit. 2. p. 41. n. 8.
Stem, shrubby, much branched, forming a handsome
close compact bush: branches thickly clothed with short
woolly hairs, the younger ones with spreading villous
ones. Leaves variable, sessile, or attenuated into a sort
of short footstalk at the base, oblong or elliptically
oblong, acute, the lower ones ovate and bluntish, more
or less undulate at the margins, rough and rugged,
three-nerved and attenuated at the base, reticulately
veined, hairy on both sides and slightly canescent, the
hairs short and in fascicles : upper leaves linear, spreading,
the points generally reflexed, connected at the base.
Flowers varying from light to bright purple, terminal,
solitary or in threes, terminating the young branches,
I which sometimes give an appearance of being paniculate
or cymose, the young branches being oftentimes
crowded nt the points of the main shoot. Peduncles
short, densely clothed with tufts of hairs, which give
them a woolly appearance. Calyx of 5 sepals, that are
ovate, concave, villous at the base, and tapering to a long