CISTUS Clusii.
Clusiuss Rock-Rose.
Sect. II . L edonia. Supra, fo l. 1.
§ 2. Pedunculis bracteatis, bracteis caducis decussatis, inferiori-,
bus minoribus unijloris, axillaribus solitariis vel terminalibus umbel-
latis: calycibus 3-5 sepalis; capsulis 5-10 locularibus.
** Stigmate capitato parvo, stylo cylindrico staminibus suboequali.
C. Clusii, caule fruticoso suberecto ramoso, foliis subtrinerviis li-
nearibus margine revolutis subtùs subcaneseentibus, floribus sub-
capitatis, calyce 3-5-sepalo piloso ; sepalis ovatis acutis exterio-
ribus minoribus, capsulis 5-locularibus.
Cistus Clusii. Dunalin DC. prodr. 1. p . 226. Swt. hort. brit. p. 34.
n. 28.
Cistus Libanotis /3. Lam. diet. 2. p. 18. Desf. f l. atl. 1. p. 412. excl.
synon.
Ledon V I I. Clus. hist. 1. p. 80. ic.
Stem shrubby, erect or spreading, much branched:
branches spreading, hispidly hairy, when old clothed
with a dark brown scaly bark; young ones thickly
clothed with unequal, spreading, soft white hairs.
Leaves opposite, sessile, connate, clasping the stem,
crossing each other, linear, bluntish or rarely acute,
three-nerved from the base, more or less rugose, reti-
culately veined, margins a little rolled back, entire,
young ones hairy on both sides, old ones of a dark
green, and rather glossy on the upper side, slightly
canescent and tomentose underneath. Panicles brac-
teate, at first capitate, afterwards lengthening out,
thickly clothed with spreading villous hairs, as are the
peduncles, bractes, and calyx. Bractes ovate, acute,
lower ones leaf-like, crossing each other, like the leaves,
generally longer than the peduncles. Peduncles generally
3 or 4-flowered, with a small ovate, fringed, deciduous
bracte at the base. Pedicles slender, villous.