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HELIANTHEMUM strammeum.
Straw-coloured Sun-Rose.
Sect. IX . E uhelianthemum. Su p ra f o l . 7.
** P e ta lis albis, roseis, ru b r is v e l d ilu te sulphureis.
H. stramineum, caulibus ramosis elongatis procumbentibus apice
tomentosiusculo-pubescentibus, foliis planis aut margine vix re-
curvis supra yiridibus pilosis subtus tomentoso-incanis: inferioribus
rotundo-oyatis obtusis: superioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acutius-
culis, stipulis linearibus acutis ciliatis petiolo duplo longioribus,
racemis multifloris, cslycibus striatis glubriusculis, petalis obovatis
patentibus distinctis.
Suffrutescent, procumbent, very much branched: branches
elongated, and spreading round to a considerable
distance, thickly clothed with short hairs when young,
and the upper part with a canescent tomentum. Leaves
opposite, petiolate, flat, or very slightly recurved at the
margins, the upper side of a dark green and very hairy,
underneath clothed with a close white tomentum: lower
ones roundly oval and obtuse; the upper ones much
longer, oblongly lanceolate, and more acute. Petioles
short, hairy, flat on the upper side, and rounded underneath.
Stipules linear, acute, fringed, more than
double the length of the petioles, green on both sides.
Racemes terminal, many-flowered, nodding before the
expansion of the flowers, afterwards becoming erect.
Bractes linear, acute, fringed, and hairy, about the
length of, or nearly as long as the pedicles. Pedicles to-
mentose, and clothed with short hairs, drooping before
the expansion of the flowers, erect when they are expanded,
afterwards reflexed, and more or less twisted.
Calyx of 5 sepals; the two outer ones small, linear, dark