HELIANTHEMUM glomeratum.
Cluster-flowered Sun-Rose.
Sect. I I . Lecheoides. Supra fol. 11.
* Pedunculis multifloris axillaribus seu termmalibus ;jiombus pai -
vulis confertis.
H qlomeratum, caule suffruticoso subdichotomo, ramis subtomen-
toso-cinereis, foliis lanceolato-oblongis basi attenuate subtils F * *
cipue incanis, racemis axillaribus termmalibusye multifloris folio
minoribus, floribus glomerate. DC. prodr. 1 . p. 269. n. .
Helianthemum glomeratum. Sprang, syst. 2. p. 588. n. 23. Swt.
hort. brit. ed. 2 . p. 41. n. 17.
Cistus glomeratus. Lagasca gen. et spec. p. 16.
Stem suffrutescent, erect, much branched: branches
erect, flexuose, densely clothed with short hairs, and
whitedownunderneath, forked atthepoints, and branching
again in all directions. Leaves alternate, sessile, or on
very short pedicles, deciduous or dropping off in Winter,
oblong, the lower ones largest and nearly ovate, obtuse,
the upper ones lanceolate and more acute, all attenuated
towards the base, hoary on both sides, but whitest
underneath, thickly clothed on both sides with tufts of
short hairs, that are seated on little tubercles, which
causes a roughness on the leaf when examined with a
lens Petioles very short, furrowed a little on the upper
side and rounded below, densely pubescent. Flowers
numerous, crowded in deiise clusters in the axils of the
leaves, and terminal, so as to appear like an interrupted
spike or raceme; in our plant always apetalous, nearly
sessile or on very short footstalks. Calyx of 5 sepals,
densely clothed with short hairs that are seated on minute
tubercles, of a hoary appearance: two outer ones
very small, spreading; the three inner ones ovate,