HELIANTHEMUM candidum.
White-leaved Sun-Hose.
Sect. I. Halimium. Supra, fo l. 4.
** Stylo subnulld, stigmate magno.
H. candidum, caule fruticoso erecto ; ramis leproso-candidis, foliis
utrinque leproso-candidis lanceolato-obovatis basi attenuatis sub-
petiolatis planis supra pilosis subtus papilloso-scabris subtri-
nerviis ; floralibus oppositis sessilibus utrinque viridibus, pedun-
culis longis subpaniculatis glabris vel parce pilosis, calycibus 3-5-
sepalis acutis villoso-pilosis, petalis valde imbricatis.
Stem shrubby, erect, much branched, clothed with a
brown warted bark: branches erect, or slightly spread-
ing, densely clothed with a close pressed white tomen-
tum, and a few long spreading hairs intermixed.
Leaves opposite, lanceolate, or lanceolately obovate,
bluntish, or scarcely acute, flat, or the margins of the
round leaves folded inward, attenuated at the base into
a sort of footstalk, clothed on both sides with a dense
white tomentum, and long spreading white hairs on the
upper side; underneath slightly 3-nerved, and very
rough, occasioned by small tubercles, on which grow
short tufts of hairs; those on the flower stems, opposite,
green on both sides, more strongly 3-nerved, with a few
long spreading hairs on the upper side, and tufts of
short hairs seated on little rough tubercles underneath.
Flower-stems long, paniculately branching, smooth and
glossy, or a few hairs scattered here and there. Bractes
elliptically lanceolate, acute, keeled at the back. P e dicles
glossy, slightly warted. Calyx varying, with 3, 4,
or 5 sepals; outer small sepals spreading, linear, scarcely
acute, smooth and glossy; inner ones lanceolately
ovate, concave, taper-pointed, with membranaceous
margins, villosely hairy, more or less tinged with
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