HELIANTHEMUM polygalæfolium.
Milkwort-leaved Sun-Rose.
Sect. I I . Lecheoides. Calyx 5-sepalus, sepalis externislineari-
bus angustis, internis acutis margine scariosis. Petala lutea. Stylus
subnullus vel brevissimus ereçtus. Stigma magnum capitatum.
Ovarium trianguläre. Capsula glabra, nitida, trivalvis, unilocularis.
Semina rufescentia, parva.—Caules perennes herbacei vel suffruticosi
ascendentes seu erecti, seepe dichotomi. Folia inferiora opposita ; cau-
lina alterna, penninervia, breviter petiolata, sessilia, exstipulata. DC.
prodr. 1. p. 269.
** Pedunculis ramealibus unifloris ebracteatis.
H. polygaloefolium, caule suffruticoso flexupso-adsçendeute ramoso :
ramis gracilibus hirsuto-tomentosis subcanescentibus, foliis cau-
linis sessilibus alternis acutis ciliato-hirsutis nitidis : inferioribus
oblongo-lanceolatis : superioribus lanceolato-linearibus, pedunculis
unifloris foliis longioribus calycibusque hirsuto-canescentibus,
sepalis internis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis obcordatis
concavis crenulatis basi imbricatis.
Perennial. Stems several from the same root, elongated,
very much branched, suffruticose, flexuose,
slender, branching in various directions, ascending:
branches thickly clothed with a kind of villous tomen-
tum, and a few hairs intermixed. Leaves on the
branches, without stipules, alternate, sessile, acute,
hairy on both sides, fringed, of a dark glossy green
on the upper side, and paler underneath ; channelled
on the upper side, the under side covered with tufts of
starry hairs and longer ones intermixed: lower leaves
oblongly-lanceolate, upper ones narrower, lanceolately
linear, acute, concave. Peduncles 1-flowered, opposite
to a leaf, and longer than the leaves, clothed with
numerous fascicles of starry canescent hairs, and a few
longer ones intermixed. Calyx of 5 sepals, the 2 outer
ones very small, linear, bluntish, setosely hairy, inner
ones ovately-lanceolate, taper-pointed, the points tipped
with red; the inner margin scariose and membranaceous,
thickly clothed with rather decumbent bristly