CISTUS vaginatus.
Oblong-leaved, Rock-rose.
Sect. I. E rythrocistüs. Supra, f o l 3.
* Pedunculis unifions, axillarïbus vel terminalibus, solitariis, um-
bellatisve : stylo cylindrico soepè stamitiibus longiore ; stigmate capi-
luto 5-sulcato. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264.
C. vaginatus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis trinerviis hirsutis subtus
reticulatis petiolatis, petiolis basi dilatatis, margine pilosis sul-
catis vaginantibus, floribus paniculatisr pedunculis subtrifloris
calycibusque hirsuto-villosis.
Cistus vaginatus. DC. prodr. 1. p. 265. Jacq. hort. schoenb. 3, p. 17.
t. 282. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 304. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 304. Willden. sp.
pl. 2. p. 1183. Pers. syn. 2. p. 75. Botan. Regist. 225. Sprang,
syst. veg. 2. p . 585.
Shrubby, erect, branching, clothed with a brown deciduous
bark: branches spreading, ascendant, cylindrical,
thickly clothed with a dense white tomentum, and
short viscous hairs intermixed. Leaves opposite, oblongly
lanceolate, at first acute, but becoming blunter
by age, covered on both sides with long white hairs,
and some smaller ones intermixed; underneath 3-
nerved, and reticulately veined, upper side of a whitish
green, under side yellowish. Petioles short, channelled
on the upper side, and rounded on the lower, with a
furrow on each side, dilated and connected at the base,
sheathing the stem, viscous, and clothed with unequal
hairs. Flowers large, panicled, of a light rose colour,
jBractes sessile, clasping the stem, lower ones leaf-like,
oblongly lanceolate, acute, upper ones small, oblongly
ovate. Peduncles generally 3-flowered, clothed with
soft down, and longer spreading hairs. Pedicles cylindrical,
a little nodding, slightly viscous. Sepals 5,
papillose, hairy, the 2 outer ones scarcely one third as
large as the inner ones, oblong-lanceolate, acute, points
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