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HELIANTHEMUM macranthon.
Great-flowered Sun-Rose.
Sect. IX . E uhelianthemum. Supra fol. 7.
** Petalis albis, roseis„ rubris vel dilute sulphureis.
H. macranthon, caule suffruticoso, ramis procuxnbentibus tomentosi-
usculis, foliis planis ovato-oblongis acutiusculis supra glabris sub-
tils levissime tomentosis pallide cinereis, stipulis pilosiusculis pe-
tiolo subsequalibus vel longioribus, calycibus striatis pilosis, petalis
distinctis.
Stem suffruticose, much branched : branches procumbent,
clothed with a thin tomentum, the upper part
tinged with purple. Reaves large and flat, ovately oblong,
obtuse, or scarcely acute, the upper side green,
smooth, and glossy, or very thinly clothed with hairs,
which are mostly in pairs, underneath clothed with a
short thin tomentum, besides numerous little bunches
of hairs which give a greyish appearance, the hairs are
fixed on minute tubercles which occasions a roughness.
Petioles hairy, furrowed on the upper side and rounded
on the lower. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, acute, fringed
with long hairs: lower ones about the length of the
petioles : upper ones double the length. Racemes terminal,
nodding before expansion, afterwards becoming-
erect and lengthening out. Bractes lanceolate, slightly
falcate, fringed with long hairs. Pedicles clothed with
a thin tomentum and some longer hairs intermixed,
tinged with purple, nodding before the flowers expand,
erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5
sepals; the two outer ones small, oblongly lanceolate,
spreading, and fringed with long hairs; the three inner