CISTUS cymosus.
Cyme-flowered Rock-Rose.
Sect. I . E rythrocistus. Su p ra f o l. 3.
** Pedunculis subcymosis: stylo subnullo cap ita to staminibus bre
viore.
C. cymosus, foliis lato-ovatis apice contortis acutiùsculis subtùs ru-
gosis incanis petiolatis, petiolis basi dilatatis sulcatis subvaginan-
tibus, pedunculis cymosis 6-10-floris incanis axillaribus termina-
libusve. D u n a l in D C .p r o d r . 1. p . 265.
Cistus cymosus. D C .p r o d r . 1. p . 265. S w t. hort. b rit. p . 34. n. 13.
Cistus incanus. Sm ith in Sibthorp’s Flora Groeca. t. 494. n ecaliorum.
A very handsome small bushy shrub, much branched,
the branches ascending, rather short and slender, clothed
with a rough hairy pubescence. Leaves petiolate,
broadly ovate, scarcely acute, the points more or less
twisted, underneath rugose and reticulately veined, clothed
with a short thin hoary canescence, and short hairs
intermixed. Petioles dilated at the base and clasping
the stem, somewhat winged, more or less tinged with
red, and channelled on the upper side. Flowers of a
lively red, middle sized or smallish, produced in numerous
many-flowered cymes. Peduncles hairy and ca-
nescent. Bractes oblong, bluntish. Pedicles hairy and
canescent. Calyx of 5 sepals, that are ovately lanceolate
and taper-pointed, veined with red lines, hoary
and clothed with shortish hairs. Petals 5, obcordate,
imbricate, of a bright red, in some plants pale lilac,
more or less crumpled from their thin texture. Stamens
numerous : filaments yellow: pollen orange-colour. Ger-
men tomentose. Style very short, quite hid by the capi-
late stigma, which is slightly 5-furrowed, and papillose.