and becoming erect. Bractes fringed, similar to the upper
stipules. Pedicles longer than the bractes, densely
clothed with a short grey tomentum. Calyx of 5 sepals;
the two outer ones small, bluntish, hairy, dark green;
the three inner ones ovate, acute, concave, membranaceous
between the angles, the angles marked with redor
violet colour, smooth and glossy, slightly hairy. Petals
5, imbricate, white, more or less uneven or crenulate
at the edges, roundly obovate. Stamens numerous: fila ments
smooth, yellow: pollen orange-coloured. Style
twisted at the base. Stigma large, capitate, papulose.
We also received the present handsome species from
Mr. Miller, of the Bristol Nursery, at the same time as
the subject of the last plate ; it is a scarce plant m our
collections, we having never seen it in any of the Nurseries
about London; it is readily distinguished from
all others to which it is related, by its upright growth
and glossy leaves, and the red veins of the calyx; it
must not be confounded with Cistus racemosus of
Cavanilles, which is a variety of H. lavandulafolium, according
to Dunal in Decandolle’s Prodromus, and is a
yellow-flowered species.
The present species is a native of Spain, Barbaiy, and
the Canary Islands, and will stand our Winters, if not
very severe, in the open ground ; it is well adapted
for ornamenting rock-work, from its handsome glossy
foliage; its flowers are also produced in succession nearly
all the Summer and till late in Autumn, thriving best
in a light sandy soil; it is also best to have some plants
of it in pots, as those can be preserved in frames through
the Winter, and can be planted out in Spring, to supply
the places of any that may have been killed by frost:
young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, any time
from July to September, will strike root readily.