HELIANTHEMUM thymifolium.
Thyme-leaved Sun-Rose.
Sect. I I . F umana. S u p r a fo l. 16.
*** F o liis oppositis alternisque stipu la tis.
H. thymifolium, caule suffruticoso procumbente, ramis pubescenti-
bus, foliis sublinearibus brevissimis pubescentibus oppositis summis
alternis, stipulis mucronatis erectis, pedunculis yilloso-glutinosis
paucifloris. D C . p ro d r. 2. p . 276.
Helianthemum thymifolium. P e r s . syn. 2. p . 79. Spreng, syst. 2.
p . 591.
Cistus thymifolius. L inn. spec. 743, Willden. s p .p l. 2 .p . 1206. H o rt.
K ew . ed. 2. v. 3. p . 312. Flor, grcec. t. 500.—B a rre l, ic . t. 444.
A pretty little dwarf suffrutescent plant. Stems numerous,
procumbent, the points ascending, densely pubescent,
or clothed with short hairs. Leaves crowded,
opposite, linearly oblong, scarcely acute, very short,
thickly clothed with a roughish pubescence; the young
shoots produced in the axils of the leaves give the appearance
of the leaves being tufted : upper leaves sometimes
alternate. Stipules short, erect, mucronate. Racemes
terminal, few-flowered, nodding before the flowers
expansion, becoming erect as they expand. Peduncles
and pedicles villosely hairy, somewhat glutinous. Brac-
tes short, very hairy. Pedicles drooping before the flowers
expansion, erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed.
Calyx of 5 sepals, clothed with a short clammy pubescence
; the 2 outer ones very small and narrow, spreading
or somewhat reflexed, inner ones broadly ovate,
concave, short and inflated, acute. Petals 5, bright
yellow, obovate, somewhat crumpled, imbricate over
2 d 2