HELIANTHEMUM venustum.
Charming Sun-Rose.
Sect. IX . E uhelianthemum. Supra, fol. 7.
** Petalis albis, roseis, rubris vel dilute sulphureis.
H. venustum, caule suffruticoso adscendente ramoso; ramis glabris
verrucosis apice subtomentosis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis
plan is aut margine vix revolutis denticulato-scabris sul)tus tomen-
toso-incanis supra viridibus nitidis, stipnlis lanceolatis ciliato-hir-
sutis petiolo duplo longioribus, sepalis internis membranaceis:
nervis verrucosis hirsutis, petalis valde imbricatis.
Helianthemum venustum. Swt. hort. brit. p. 36. n. 78.
ff.Jlore pleno.
Stem suffruticose, ascending, much branched:
branches spreading in all directions, ascending, generally
purple, smooth and glossy, more or less warted
with small brown warts, upper part slightly tomentose.
Leaves oblongly-lanceolate, acute, some of them flat,
others with the margins slightly revolute, rough, or
toothed with very small teeth, fringed with short hairs,
underneath clothed with a close white tomentum,, the
upper side green and glossy, but clothed with fascicles
of short stellate hairs. Petioles short, flattened on the
upper side, and rounded on the lower, about half the
length of the stipules. Stipules lanceolate, fasciculately
hairy and ciliate, the points setose.. Racemes terminal,
several flowered, nodding before expansion,.afterwards
erect. Bractes lanceolate, fasciculately hairy and
fringed. Pedicles short and slender, slightly tomentose,
nodding before the flowers expand,, erect when in
flower, afterwards reflexed. Calypc of 5 sepals : the
2 outer ones small, elliptically lanceolate, bluntish,
keeled, hairy and fringed, the keel warted; inner ones
ovate, concave, acute, membranaceous, strongly 4-
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