CL ST US asperifolius.
Rough-leaved Rock-Rose.
Sect. II . Lebonia. Suprafol. 1 .
§. 1. Pedunculis unijloris, aut multijioria cymosis, sepalis 5, extends
scepiiis cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis 5-locularibus.
* Pedunculis hast nudis, soepe; infra medium folia opposita gerentibus.
C. asperifolius, foliis subsessilibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis trinerviis
rugosis glabriusculis margine undulatis subdenticulatis ciliatis: sub-
tus reticulato-venosis; nervis venisque asperis, floribus cymosis, pedunculis
calycibusque hirsutis, petalis imbricatis.
Stem erect, much branched, forming a strong bushy
shrub: branches spreading, erect, or ascending, very
rough, thickly clothed with long spreading hairs, intermixed
with numerous very short rigid ones. Leaves
opposite, sessile or nearly so, ovately lanceolate, acute,
rugged, very much undulate at the margins, that are
toothed with numerous minute teeth and fringed, appearing
smooth till examined by a glass, which shows
that they are clothed with numerous very short hairs
on the upper side, and longer ones underneath, particularly
on the nerves and veins : underneath 3-nerved
from the base, where they are connected, the nerves
much branched and reticulately veined, the nerves and
veins very rough. Flowers white, in terminal cymes.
Bractes ovate, or ovately lanceolate, acute, hairy, and
fringed. Peduncles and pedicles cylindrical, very hairy.
Calyx of 5 sepals; the outer sepals broadly cordate,
shortly acuminate, hairy and fringed: inner ones
ovate, membranaceous, terminated in a long slender
point. Petals 5, spreading flat, imbricate, broadly