HELIANTHEMUM eheiranthoides.
Stock-like Sun-Rose.
Sect. I. H ALIMIUM. Suprafol.4.
’** Stylo subnullo, stigmate rnagno.
H. eheiranthoides, caule fruticoso erecto ramoso; ramis junioribus
villoso-tomentosis incanis, foliis tomentosis cinereo-incanis ob-
longo-lanceolatis in petiolum attenuatis, pedunculis brevibus sub-
bifloris, calycibus subvillosis 5-sepalis, sepalis externis minutissi-
mis. DC. prodr. v. 1. p. 268.
Helianthemum eheiranthoides. Pers. syn. 2 . p. 76. Spreng. syst. v. 2 .
p. 587. Slot. hort. brit. p. 35. edit. 2 . p. 41.
Cistus eheiranthoides. Lamarck diet. 2. p. 19.
Cistus halimifolio I I . Clus. hist. 1. p. 71.
A handsome bushy upright branching shrub : branches
upright, thickly clothed with woolly hairs, that are
seated on dark warts or glands. Leaves opposite, or the
upper ones alternate, oblonglv lanceolate, three-nerved,
attenuated into a sort of petiole at the base, thickly
clothed on both sides with a close white woolly pubescence,
which gives them a white hoary appearance ; the
lower ones broadest, and bluntish; the upper ones narrow
and acute. Peduncles generally 2-flowered, densely
clothed with woolly hairs that are seated on small dark
warts. Flowers bright yellow, with no spot of red or
purple. Calyx of 5 sepals; thickly clothed with dense
wool: the two outer ones very small, spreading: the
three inner ones broadly ovate, inclining to heart shaped,
terminated in a long taper point. Petals 5, ob-
cordate, or broadly cuneate, hollow at the ends and
uneven, imbricated over each other, spreading flat when
fully expanded, of a plain bright yellow. Stamens nu