HELIANTHEMUM versicolor.
Various coloured Sun-Rose.
Sect. IX . E uhelianthemum. Supra, f o i l .
** Petalis albis, roseis, rubris vel dilute sulphureis.
H. versicolor, caule fruticoso erecto ramoso: ramis adscendentibus
stellato-pubescentibus subincanis, foliis oblongis planis aut supra
concavis subtus tomentoso-incanis supra viridis glabris, stipulis
oblongo-linearihus ciliato-pilosis apiee setosis petiolo sublongio-
ribus, calycibus breviter tomentosis, petalis imbricatis..
Helianthemum versicolor. Swt. Hort. brit. p. 36. n. 77.
Chamsecistus luteus imis Serpylli foliis. Barrel, ic. 440.
Stems shrubby, erect, from a foot to IS inches high,
much branched: branches spreading, ascendant, clothed
with a canescent starry pubescence. Leaves oblong, or
oblongly lanceolate, flat, or the upper side concave,
upper side roughish, of a glossy green, underneath
clothed with a close white tomentum : lower ones oval
or rounded, upper ones narrower and more acute,
margins in some of the young leaves a little revolute.
Petioles short, pubescent. Stipules small, oblongly
linear, a little longer than the petioles, hairy, ciliate,
and terminated with short bristles. Racemes terminal,
several-flowered, curved inwards before flowering, afterwards
becoming erect. Bractes oblong, bluntish, hairy
and ciliate. Pedicles clothed with a loose white pubescence,
nodding before the expansion of the flowers,
generally erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed.
Calyx of 5 sepals, clothed with a short canescent pubescence,
2 outer ones very small, spatulate, obtuse;
inner ones ovate, concave, membranaceous, strongly
4-nerved, the nerves more or less hairy. Petals 4,
rounded, much imbricate, more or less crumpled, variable
in colour, red, copper-coloured or light fleshh
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