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47. C0MP0SITACEJ3. 
smooth. St. mostly shrubby and climbing. L. simple 
undivided palmately nerved mostly angularly lobed and 
stalked ; petioles auriculato-stipulate. FI. y. discoidal 
or few-rayed. Ach. smooth. — Mostly Cape species. 
tf4. S. MIKANIOIDES Otto. 
St. frutescent much branched and thickly matted climbing ; 
1. on long petioles fleshy angular acutely 3-7 -lobed roundish - 
reniform deeply notched or cordate at the base, petioles mostly 
longer than the 1., the lower auriculate with very shortly stalked 
or nearly sessile semiorbicular or reniform entire leafy stip. 
at their base ; cymes axillary and terminal many-fld. crowded 
on short somewhat leafy axillary stalks or side-shoots towards 
the ends of the branches, scarcely longer than the 1., forming 
an irregular interrupted oblong terminal panicle ; ped. sparingly 
and loosely subulato-bracteate upwards, the upper 2-4 br. con- 
stituting the calvcle ; tips of br. and scales of inv. withered or 
discoloured black or purple ; heads discoidal 10-12-fld., florets 
all perfect rather large and prominent ; scales of inv. 8. — Ilarv. 
and Sond. FI. Cap. iii. 402. S. scandens DC. vi. 404 (not Don, 
Juss., Wall., Ham., nor Cacalia scandens Tliunb.). — Siiflf. per. 
Mad. reg. 1, perfectly naturalized, ccc. Banks and hedges, 
about Funchal and its neighbourhood everywhere ; behind the 
church at Agua da Pena, at P ta do Pargo, l )ta Delgada, Seixal 
&C.-; and in vast profusion, forming thick matted beds 100 
yards long and 20 broad or more, at Rib. Fundo on the sides 
of the bed of the stream above the village. March- June, but 
at most seasons. — St. slender flexuose succulent but stiff hard 
and wiry, brown and woody downwards, climbing or spreading 
in thick close entangled masses either on the ground or up any 
support 6-10 ft. or more. Whole pi. of a light shining gr. 
perfectly smooth succulent or somewhat fleshy. L. 2 or 3 in. 
in diam. a little broader than long, in shape ivy-like with very 
acute triangular entire lobes. Petioles 2 or 3 (1-3) in. long, 
curved or flexuose, their auricles fleshy like the 1., sparingly and 
shortly subciliate. FI. rather handsome and conspicuous though 
always rayless, fragrant but not agreeably, bright golden y. 
Inv. narrow-cylindric 2 lines long, 1 line broad pale or light 
bright gr., often a little darker at top and bottom. Br. of ped. 
and calycle loosely erect fleshy linear-subulate, their tips in- 
curved and withering. Scales linear herbaceous-succulent gib- 
bous- fleshy at the base, quite smooth, the tip only distinctly 
barbulate. Fits, twice the length of scales or inv. exserted 
tubular evenly 5-cleft. Styles and anthers far-exserted long 
conspicuous ; branches of style at first divergent then revolute, 
truncate and pubescent at the tips. Recept. very small alveo- 
late ; cells 5-angular with much-raised pale membranous edges. 
Ach. very small and narrow linear filiform subpubescent with 
