HELIANTHEMUM procumbens.
Procumbent Sun-Rose.
Sect. V I I. F umana. Suprafol. 16.—* Foliis alternis exstipulatis.
VL.p rocumbens, caule sufFrulicoso procumbente ramoso, rarais elon-
gatis junioribus canescentibus, foliis alternis linearibus sublaxis
margine et subtus pilosis : pilis strigosis, pedunculis subaxillari-
bus folio brevioribus, capsulis apertis semina gerentibus. Dunal
ined. in DC. prodr. 1. p . 275.
Heliantheinum procumbens. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 590. Swt. hort. brit.
p. 35.— Barrel, ic. t. 445.
Cistus iiumilis sive chamaecistus ericae folio humilior. Magn. hot.
p. 69.
Stem suffruticose, procumbent, clothed with a brown
glossy bark, much branched; branches elongated, procumbent,
canescent when young, and thickly clothed
with short white down. Leaves alternate, linear, loosely
spreading, rather succulent, scarcely acute, the points
slightly curved inwards, margins and underside clothed
with short strigose hairs. Stipules and Bractes none.
Peduncle short, axillary, solitary, purplish, slightly
pubescent, erect when in bud, and when the flower is
expanded, afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals,
twisted at the point before expansion, 2 outer ones
narrow, linear, acute, more than half the length of the
inner ones, which are ovate, concave, taper-pointed,
3 or 4-nerved, the nerves purplish, tubercled, and
clothed with very short hairs. Petals 5, broadly obo-
vate, imbricate, of a bright yellow. Stamens about 20
bearing anthers, besides a few sterile ones: filaments
smooth, pale yellow. Germen glossy, slightly pubescent.
Style smooth, a little bent at the base, thickening
upwards. Stigma capitate, fimbriate, slightly 3-lobed.