Rho does am nus (rodothamnus)

[NL. (Reichenbach, 1830), IMG:content-2217.jpg:[merged small][graphic][merged small] bush.] A genus of small shrubs of the order Ericaceæ and tribe Rhodoreæ. It is characterized by having a wheel-shaped corolla and ten long stamens, and terminal, solitary, and long-peduncled flowers. The only species, R. Chamæcistus, is a native of the Austrian and Italian Alps. It is a low branching shrub with scattered short-petioled leaves, which are elliptical-lanceolate, entire, evergreen, and shining. It bears rose-colored flowers, large for the size of the plant, with spreading and curving stamens, the long slender peduncles and the calyx glandular-hairy. The whole plant in habit and flower resembles an azalea. The fruit is an erect five-furrowed globose capsule. Sometimes called ground - cistus, translating the specific name.