HELIANTHEMUM ledifolium.
Ledum-leaved Sun-Rose.
Sect. V. B rachypetalum. Calyx 5-sepalus, sepalis externis
minutis, internis trinerviis acuminatis. Petala lutea, interdùni basi
maculata, parva, sæpè calyce breviora. Stamina pauca 10-20, ovariumeingentia.
Stylus rectus et erectus apice incrassatus. Stigma
simplex. Ovarium triquetrum, angulis sæpè pilosis. Capsula trique-
tra, subnitida. Semina numerosa, minuta, pallida, angulosa.—Herbæ
annuoe. Folia stipulata, petiolata, penninervia, subdenticulata, oppo-
nta, florulia alterna. Stipulas oblongo-lineares, superiores longiores.
i^edunculi uniflori, breves, solitarii, rarà axillares, satpiùs oppositi-
jo in vel oppositibractei, suberecti, horizontales vel retrofracti. DC.
prodr. L p. 271.
Pedunculis suberectis foliis brevioribus, sepalis internis trinerviis.
H. ledifolium, caule herbaceo, ramis pubescentibus erectis vel ad-
scendentibus, foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis oblongo-ellipticis
subdenticnlatis glabnusculis junioribus stellato-pubescentibus; su-
penoribus alterms floribus oppositis, omnibus stipulatis, pedun-
culis erectis et calycibus acuminatis pubescentibus, capsulis mag-
nis glabris. °
Helianthemum ledifolium. DC. prodr. i p. 272. Spreng, sust. v. 2.
p. 589. n. 34. Pers. syn. 2. p. 7. Swt. hort. brit. p. 35. n. 26.
Cistus ledifolius. Linn. spec. 742. Smith Engl. bot. 2414. Comv ü
brit. ed. 4. p. 95. t J '
Annual. Stem erect, simple, or scarcely branched,
smoothish, or sometimes clothed with short loose pubescence,
from 4 inches to a foot in height. Leaves opposite,
^with short footstalks, the upper ones alternate,
oblongiy elliptic, bluntish, denticulate, old ones smoothish,
glossy; young ones clothed with a short tomentum,
and fascicles of short starry hairs, nerve underneath pin-
nately branched: upper side of a bright green, underneath
paler, margins clothed with little fascicles of short
hairs, which are seated on minute tubercles, or small
teeth. Petioles clothed with little tufts of hairs. S ti,
pules large, leaf-like, lanceolately linear, taper-pointed,
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