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47. COMPOSITACEJE. 
into the petiole with 2 or 3 large spreading or recurved teeth 
below the pinnae, very thick stiff and fleshy and of a rather 
dark full gr. ; their edges and tips of the strong coarse teeth 
marginato-sphacelate. FI. not corymbose but on ped. of dif- 
ferent lengths 3 or 4 together or single at the ends of the 
branches covering the whole bush. Ped. stout stiff strongly 
ribbed distinctly thickened upwards. Heads and peri cline as 
in A. pinnatifidum (3, thick swollen hard and fleshy ; scales large 
broadly oval brown scarious entire. Id gules of ray broad and 
rather short (| in. or half diam. of disk long) 15-20, varying 
from a fine madder-pink or rose to pure w. Disk in bud y., 
in fl. dark dull blood-purple, conico-convex becoming more so 
in fr. Fl. of disk entirely smooth, their teeth dark purple. 
Recept. naked, in fr. highly conical hollow. Ach. of ray large 
incurved or boat-shaped or thickly shortly broadly and sub- 
equablv triquetrous, very broad and convex or almost gibbous 
at the back, the 2 side angles very sharp and mostly winged, 
sometimes simply carinate, the ventral angle always broadly 
(sometimes doubly) winged, all the wings rudely sinuate or 
toothed and produced into a dimidiate oblique inwardly de- 
clining or secund broadish irregularly sinuate-toothed or beaked 
crown or crest. Ach. of next 4 or 5 rows also fertile and 
similar, but much compressed and more and more shortly ob- 
long, winged both dorsally and ventrallv, but not at the sides, 
which have only a faint rib or two : the inner numerous in 
many rows, all smaller and abortive, but with irregular more 
or less rudimentary wings and crown like the outer. All the 
ach. are finely shagreened or frosted as in Arg. pinnatifidum , 
but brown, much larger or coarser, and wholly different in 
aspect. 
A bush of this sp. on its native black or grey and barren 
crags, one mass of lovely rose-pink fl., and conspicuous from 
afar like a Camellia or Hose bush, is a truly splendid and sur- 
prising sight. The fl. however are very inconstant in intensity 
of colour; and removed from the neighbourhood of the sea, the 
1. also lose their extremely rigid fleshy character. 
.‘1. A. DIS8ECTUM (Lowe). 
L. broadly ovate-oblong or lanceolate 2-3 times as long as 
broad pectinately finely and regularly subdecomposed or 2-li-pin- 
iiatiscct, the divisions all linear- 1 igulate or narrow-lanceolate and 
sharply acuminate ; pinnae numerous (10-15 or 10) alternate 
subequal parallel remote distinct rectilinear pointing forwards, 
pectinately sharply and finely pinnatisect or pinnately inciso- 
serrate, the lower pinnules again here and there sharply gashed 
or serrate-toothed, the pinnules serratures or teeth all pointing 
