CISTUS monspeliensis.
Montpelier Rock-Rose,
Sect. II. Ledonia. Supra, fol. 1.
§. I. Pedunculis unifloris, aut multifloris cymosis; sepalis 5, exterms
seepius cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis 5-locularibus.
* Pedunculis basi nudis, scepe infrd medium folia opposita geren-
C. monspeliensis, caule erecto raraoso, foliis angusto-lanceolatis ru-
gosis trinerviis viscosis subtus reticularis sessilibus, pedunculis
terminalibus villosis subcymosis, sepalis parvis villoso-viscosis,
petalis obovato-cuneatis basi imbricatis.
Cistus monspeliensis. Linn. spec. 737. DC. prodr. L. p. 265.
Willden. sp. pi. 2. p. 1184. Pers. syn. 2. p. 75. Hart. Kew. ed. 2.
v.3. p. 305. Flor. greec. t. 403.
Stem shrubby, erect, straight, clothed with a brown
glossy bark, branching: branches erect, hairy, and
slightly viscous. Leaves opposite, sessile, narrowly
lanceolate, acute, or scarcely obtuse, very much rugose
or wrinkled, three-nerved from the base, underneath
reticulately wrinkled, viscous, covered on both sides
with tufts of short brown hairs and long simple ones
intermixed, of a dark green on the upper side, and of a
brown rusty colour underneath; those at the base of
the peduncles broader at the base, more strongly nerved
and sharper pointed. Peduncles terminal, on the small
shoots 3, 4, and 5-flowered, on the terminal ones cy-
mose, and from 10 to 20-flowered, thickly clothed with
spreading unequal clammy hairs, as are the pedicles
and sepals. Pedicles short, scarcely as long as the
sepals. Calyx of 5 sepals, the outer ones rather largest,
ovate, acute, clammy and thickly clothed with long
spreading hairs; inner ones narrower, concave, sharper
pointed, also very hairy. Petals 5, obcordate, or