CISTUS corbariensis.
Mountain Itoclc-Rose.
Sect. II. Ledonia. Supra, fol. 1.
§ t i Pedunculis unifloris, aut multifloris cymosis; sepalis 5, ex-
ternis scepihs cordatis acuminatis i capsulis 5-locularibus.
* Pedunculis basi nudis, scepe infrä medium folia opposita geren-
tibus.
C. corbariensis, foliis petiolatis subcordatis ovatis acuminatis mar-
gine fimbriatis utrinque rugosis leviter glutinosis, pedunculis
lon°is 1-5-floris, petalis basi imbricatis apice patentibus.
Cistus corbariensis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 265. Pers. syn. 2. p. 74.
Hort. sub. lond. p. 123. Link enum. 2. p. 73. Swt. hort. brit.
p. 34. n. 15. Spreng, syst. veg. 2. p. 586.
Cistus hybridus. Pourr. chlor, narb. p. 36. nec Vahl.
Cistus salvifolius ß. DC. fl.f i'. 4. p. 813.
Stem shrubby, erect, much branched, clothed with
a brown glossy bark, more or less warted : branches
opposite, spreading, thickly clothed with leaves, smooth
or slightly pubescent. Leaves opposite, cordate at the
base, ovate, tapering to a point, points a little reflexed,
reticulately nerved and rugose, of a dark glossy green
on the upper side, and stellately pubescent underneath,
slightly glutinous, margins fimbriate with tufts of short
hairs. Petioles clothed with a stellate pubescence, and
fringed with longer hairs, channelled on the upper
side and rounded on the lower, widened at the base
and clasping the stem. Peduncles 1 to 5-flowered, axillary,
slender, stellately pubescent, nodding before the
flowers expand, then becoming erect. Bractes deciduous,
cordately ovate, acute, bluntly keeled, pubescent
and ciliate. Pedicles thickly clothed with a starry
pubescence, at first nodding, then becoming erect.
Calyx of 5 sepals; outer ones largest, cordate, acute,
the margins a little recurved \ inner ones membranaceous,
concave, mucronate. Petals 5, spreading flat,