HELIANTHEMUM variegatum.
Variegated-flowered Sun-Rose.
Sect. IX . E uhelianthemum. Supra fo l.7 .
** Petalis albis, roseis, rubris vel dilute sulphureis.
H. variegatum, caule suffruticoso procumbente: ramis tomentosis
subincanis diffuso-procumbentibus, foliis lanceolatis acutis plani-
usculis: subtbs tomentoso-incanis; supra viridis subscabris, sti-
pulis linearibus ciliatis petiolo longioribus, calycibus breviter tomentosis
subviolaceis, petalis undulatis.
Helianthemum variegatum. Swt.hort. brit. add. p. 469. n. 95,
Stem suffruticose, much branched: branches procumbent,
spreading in all directions, their points ascending,
densely clothed with short white wool. Leaves
opposite, lanceolate, acute, flat, or the margins sometimes
very slightly revolute; underneath clothed with
a dense white tomentum, the upper side channelled, of
a glossy green, but clothed with a few close pressed
procumbent hairs, which gives them a slightly fringed
appearance, a little roughened, occasioned by the innumerable
small punctures with which the leaf is covered.
Stipules linear, bluntish, or sometimes acute, fringed
with small hairs, a little longer than the petiole. Racemes
terminal, many-flowered. Bractes linear, acute,
fringed. Pedicles densely tomentose, nodding before
the flowers expand, erect or a little declining when in
flower, after flowering reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals,
clothed with a short thin tomentum: 2 outer sepals
small, oblong, bluntish, hairy: inner ones ovate, obtuse,
concave, membranaceous, of a violet colour,
strongly 4-nerved, the nerves slightly hairy. Petals 5,
founded, imbricate, more or less" crumpled and undulate,
the sides more or less bent inwards, beautifully
variegated with white and rose-colour. Stamens about
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