JgSto
W ^ -c ? J f ,ic ö t2 fe2 ^ ^ W!§0h - yfflayz- /■ /c P ~Jy &
m M
17
CISTUS purpureus.
Purple-flowered Rock-Rose.
Sect. I. E rythrocistus. Supra, fol. 3.
** Pedunculis cymosis; stylo subnullo capitato staminibus breviore.
C. purpureus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis obtusisve rugosis
reticulato-venosis margine undulatis, petiolis brevibus piloso-
ciliatis vaginantibus, pedunculis brevibus 1-2-ternisve aut sub-
cymosis, sepalis acuminatis exterioribus minoribus, petalis obo-
vato-cuneatis valde imbricatis.
Cistus purpureus. Lam. diet. 2. p . 14. Pers. syn. 2. p. 75. Ker.
Bot. reg. t. 408. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264. Swt. hort. sub. lond.
p. 123. Spreng, syst. veg. 2. p. 584.
Stem shrubby, erect, much branched: branches erect
or ascending, thickly clothed with a rusty pubescence.
Leaves opposite, oblong and obtuse, nearly flat, others
oblongly lanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate and acute,
with undulate margins, all tapering at the base, more
or less rugose,, reticulately veined, densely pubescent
on the lower side, and more thinly on the upper. P e tioles
short, connected at the base and sheathing the
stem, hairy. Flowers terminal, from 1 to 6 on short
peduncles. Bractes s^fesile, leaf-like, broad and concave
at the base, where they are connected, and terminating
in an acute point, pubescent. Pedicles short, clothed
with tufts of short hairs, and longer ones intermixed.
Calyx of 5 sepals, clothed with fascicles of short hairs,
fringed and taper-pointed : 2 outer ones smallest and
narrowest, cordately ovate; inner ones cordate, concave,
with membranaceous margins. Petals 5 or 6, obo-
vate or obovately wedge-shaped, very much imbricate,
more or less crumpled, of a bright reddish purple, with
a yellow spot at the base, above which is a large dark
velvet mark, surrounded with red, and slightly branched.
F