HELIANTHEMUM microphyllum.
Small-leaved Sun-Rose.
Sect. I. H alimium. Supra fol. 4.
** Stylo subnullo, stigmate magno.
H. microphyllum, caule suffruticoso ramosissimo : ramis mgro-cme-
rascentibus apiee tomentoso-hirsutis, foliis subsessilibus saepè obtusis
carinatis basi attenuatis obscure cinerascentibus tomentosis, florir
bus terminalibus paniculatis,paniculis elongatis aphyllis, pedunculis
tomentoso-hirsutis, pedicellis 1-2-floris brevissimis, calycibus 3-
sepalis hirsutissimis, petalis cuneatis distinctis.
Helianthemum rugosum. |3 microyhyllum. DC. prodr. 1. p. 268.
Helianthemum alyssoides. (3 microphyllum. D C .flo r.fr. suppl.p. 62.
Stem suffr uticose, elongated,but scarcely strong enough
to support its own weight without assistance, very much
branched: branches w7eak, slender, ascending, thickly
clothed with small shoots, which are opposite and cross
each other, densely clothed with a close pressed dark
canescent tomentum, the upper part irregularly, with
longish spreading hairs. Leaves numerous, nearly sessile,
crowded, small, oblongly ovate, nearly round, or sometimes
lanceolate, bluntish or scarcely acute, very narrow
towards the base, undulate, the sides curved inwards,
sharply keeled underneath, very stiff and rigid, densely
clothed with a close-pressed dark canescent tomentum,
margins rough. Panicle terminal, leafless, very long and
loose, thickly clothed with stiflish spreading purple hairs,
that are unequal in length, lower branches of the panicle
opposite, the upper ones alternate. Pedicles very short,
tomentosely-hairy, one to three-flowered. Calyx of 3 sepals,
that are ovately lanceolate, concave, very taper-
pointed, densely clothed with woolly hairs, of unequal