CISTUS laxus.
Broad waved-leaved Rock-Rose.
Sect. II. Ledonia. Supra, fo l. 8.
§ 1. Pedunculis unifloris, aut multißoris cymosis, sepalis 5, exterms
seepius cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis 5-locularibus.
** Pedunculis bracteatis, basi bracteolis caducis parvulis concavis
coriaceis subluteis decussatis, infra medium 2 oppositis majoribus.
C. laxus, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis mar-
gine uudulatis subdenticulatis subglabris : summis hirtis, floribus
cymosis, pedunculis calycibusque hirsutis, petalis obcordatis valde
imbricatis.
Cistus laxus. PC. prodr. 1. p. 265. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 305.
Willd. enum. 2. p. 568. Link enum 2. p. 74. Swt. hort. brit. p . 34.
n. 20. Spreng, syst. veg. 2. p. 586.
Stem shrubby, erect, not much branched : branches
erect, or slightly spreading, with a green glossy bark :
the young shoots thickly clothed with shortwoolly down,
and long spreading hairs intermixed, more or less viscous.
Leaves shortly petiolate, ovately lanceolate,
taper-pointed, margins undulate, and slightly denticulate,
the teeth terminated by hairs, strongly 3-nerved
from the base, reticulately veined on the lower side, and
rugose on the upper: old leaves nearly smooth, young
ones hairy on both sides and slightly viscous. Petioles
clasping the stem at the base, but not connected, channelled
on the upper side, furrowed on each side, and
keeled at the back. Peduncles axillary, villosely hairy,
terminated by a paniculate cyme, clothed with small
oblongly lanceolate, concave, acute, keeled bractes at
the base, which are deciduous, and fall off before the
expansion of the flowers : upper bractes larger, sessile,
oblongly lanceolate, acute, concave, hairy, and fringed.
Pedicles slender, cylindrical, villosely hairy. Calyx of
5 sepals, very hairy: 2 outer ones largest, cordate,