or rose of Jericho, in botany, a genus of the tetradynamia filiculosa clasps. The flower consists of four roundish petals, disposed in the form of a cross; the seed is a short bilocular pod, containing in each cell a single roundish seed. There are two species of the anastatica, viz. the hierochuntica, a native of the sandy parts of Palestine, and the shores of the Red-sea; and the Syriaca, a native of Syria.