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CISTUS asperifolius. 



Rough-leaved Rock- Rose. 



Sect. II. LEDONIA. Suprafol. 1. 



. 1. Pedunculis unifloris, aut multifloris cymosis, sepalisb, extends 

 scepius cordatis acuminatis; capsulis 5-locularibus. 



* Pedunculis basi nudis, scepe infrd medium folia opposita gerentibus. 



C. asperifolius, foliis subsessilibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis trinerviis 

 rugosis glabriusculis margine undulatis subdenticulatis ciliatis : sub- 

 tus reticulate- venosis ; nervis venisque asperis, floribus cymosis, pe- 

 dunculis calyeibusque 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, in- 

 termixed 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, ap- 

 pearing 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, parti- 

 cularly 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 



