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HELIANTHEMUM algarvense.
Algarvian Sun-Iiose.
Sect. I. H alimktm. Supra fol. 4.
** Stylo mbnullo, stigmate magno.
H. algarvense, caule fruticoso ramoso: ramis flexuosis dense to-
mentosis, foliis sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis obtusis obsolete triner-
viis basi attenuates : supra pilosis viridibus ; subtus tomentosis
canescentibus, pedunculis subpaniculatis pilosis, calycibus 3-se-
palis acutis hirsutis.
Helianthemum algarvense. DC.prodr. 1. p . 286. n. 7. Spreng, syst.
veg. 2. p. 587. n. 9. Suit. hort. mb. loncL p . 123. Hort. brit. p. 34.
7 i. 7. r
Cistas algarvensis. Botan. magaz. 627. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 304.
Stem shrubby, much branched, growing to the height
. of 2 or 3 feet if supported, erect or flexuose, seldom
growing in the manner represented in the Botanical
Magazine; branches more or less flexuose, .densely
clothed with a close pressed white tomentum, and a few
spreading white hairs intermixed. Leaves opposite, sessile,
very much attenuated towards the base, with blunt
points, greenish and hairy on the upper side, and
clothed with a thin tomentum underneath: lower ones
short, roundly ovate, and green on both sides : upper
ones ovately lanceolate or spathulate, slightly 3-nerved,
clothed with a thin white tomentum on the lower side,
and with little fascicles of hairs at the margins, which
gives them an appearance of being crenulate: young
leaves white on both sides. Flowering branches a little
panicled, leafy at the base, clothed with spreading slender
hairs, but not woolly as on the other branches. P e duncles
and pedicles slender and hairy. Calyx of only
3 sepals, which are nearly equal, lanceolate, taper pointed,
and clothed with long spreading loose white hairs.
Petals 5, spreading, nearly or sometimes quite distinct