CISTUS crispus.
Curled-leaved Rock-Rose.
Sect. I. E kythrocistüs. S u pra, f o l. 3.
* Pedunçulis unifloris, axillaribus vel terminalibus, solitariis um-
beltatisve ; stylo çylindrico scepè staminibus longiore ; stigmate capi-
tato 5-sukato. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264.
C. crispu s, foliis sessilibus lineari-lanceolatis undulato-crispis tri-
nerviis rugosis pubescentibus, floribus subsessilibns 3-4-nis um-
bellatis. D C . p ro d r . 1. p . 264.
Cistus crispus. L in n . spec. 1. p . *738. W illd en .sp . p l . 2. p . 1188.
P e r s . syn. 2. p . 75. Cavan, fe h l. p . 57. t . 174. H o rt. K ew . cd . 2 .
u. 3. p . 306. Spreng, sy st. veg. 2. p . 585.
Stem woody, erect or slightly flexuose, clothed with
a brown more or less cracked bark, much branched :
branches opposite, spreading, thickly clothed with unequal
spreading villous white hairs. Leaves opposite,
sessile, linearly lanceolate, acute, rugose, three-nerved
at the base, reticulately veined underneath, clothed on
both sides with a close short white pubescence, roughish
to the touch, margins much undulate or curled. Flowers
of a red purple, terminal, subeymose, nearly sessile, or
with very short peduncles, 3 to 7-flowered. Bractes
small, leaf-like, lanceolate, acute. Peduncles 1 to 3-
flowered. Pedicles very short, villosely hairy. Calyx of
5 sepals, the 2 outer ones largest, leaf-like, ovate, acute,
many nerved ; the third narrower atid scariose on one
side, inner ones smaller, concave, scariose, taper-pointed.
Petals 5, broadly obovate, imbricate nearly their whole
length, edges crenulate. Stamens from 150 to 180, compact,
surrounding the style: filaments smooth, pale
yellow; pollen orange-coloured. Style pubescent, scarcely
as long as the 'stamens. Stigma capitate, tuberculate.
This is a very pretty and distinct species, a native of
the South of Europe, and if grown in a sheltered situao
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