HELIANTHEMUM racemosum.
Long racevned Sun-Rose.
Sect. IX . Eu HELIANTHEMUM. S u p ra fo l. 7.
** P e ta lis albis, roseis, rubris v e l d ilu te sutphureis.
H. racemosum, caule fruticoso ramoso, ramis erectis teretibus to-
mentoso-incanis, foliis petiolatis linearibus vel lineari-lanceolatis
margine revolutis supra nitidis subtus incanis, stipulis subulatis
in ramis floriferis petiolo longioribus, pedicellis incanis, calycibus
nervoso-sulcatis violaceo-rufescentibus.
Helianthemum racemosum. D u n a lin D C . p rodr. 1. p.281. Sprenrj.
sust. 2. ».593. ; H T7- t.
Cistus racemosus. L inn. mant. 76? Lam. d ie t. 2. p.25. V o id sym b . 1.
p, 3 9 . Willden. sp. p i. 2. p . 1208. exclus. syn. Cavan, e t B a r r e l.
Stem frutescent, much branched, clothed with a
brown roughish bark, and marked with rings, where the
leaves have fallen: branches erect, cylindrical, clothed
with a close-pressed hoary woolliness. Leaves opposite,
petiolate, linear, oblongly or lanceolately linear, acute,
channelled on the upper side, the margins revolute:
upper side of a bright shining green, quite si .ooth on
the old leaves, but slightly pubescent when young;
underneath pennately veined, and clothed with a short
thinnish grey woolliness. Petioles clothed with a short
dense tomentum, flattened a little on the upper side
and rounded below, longest on the young Autumn
shoots. Stipules attached to the base of the petioles,
subulate, ciliate, the hairs pointing upwards: those on
the flowering shoots longer than the petioles; but on
the young Autumn shoots considerably shorter than the
petioles. Racemes terminal, very long, clothed with a
short dense woolliness, drooping or involute before the
expansion of the flowers, afterwards lengthening out