504 
47. compositace^:. 
Shr. witli entire or pinnatipartite L, erect branches and 
solitary terminal purple 11. 
1. C. Massoniana Lowe. 
Proliferously branched erect bushy, branches woody and 
naked below, thickly leafy and snowy-tomentose at their ends ; 
I. all simple lanceolate acuminate at both ends, attenuated into 
and decurrent all down the petiole, very entire minutely funw- 
puberulous or shortly and finely subtomentose or velvety, the 
upper subglabrescent ; heads large on long stout naked termi- 
nal ribbed ped. thickened upwards ; scales smooth horny pur- 
purascent with the edge or border brown and the 3-10-pal- 
mately fringed apical appendage pale brown or whitish, the 
cilia or lacinise Hat soft flexuose erect or adpressed subequal 
and more than half the breadth of the scale long ; fl. promi- 
nently radiant purple. — Hook. Journ. of Bot. viii. 297 ; Seem. 
J. of Bot. iii. 352. C. salicifolia Sol. ! MS. in BH. ; Buch ! 
194. no. 250 (not Bieb.). — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, “ PS. reg. 
4,” rrr. Perpendicular sea face of the high cliffs between Pico 
do Bancho and Cabo Girao ; and “ on high ledges and steeps 
above the path leading from the Allegria above S. Roque to 
the W. brink of the Rib. de S ,a Luzia,” F. M. Norman, Esq., 
R.N. ; “ Pico do Concelho in P.S.,” Barao do Gastello de 
Paiva (but this last locality needs substantiation). May, dune. 
— A low bushy shr. 1-2 ft. high with rather light gr. foliage 
confined to the ends of the straight stiff woody thickly knobbed 
or prominently scarred and longitudinallv ribbed or striate 
naked branches; the young leafy shoots only w. and tomentose. 
L. minutely pustulate and velvety, crowded at the ends of the 
branches, 2-3 in. long, 3-6 lines broad, attenuated downwards 
quite to the base of the petiole which is dilated into a promi- 
nent shoulder-like scar or pulvimis. Fl. large and handsome 
(1-1 1 in. in diam.) rising 3-6 in. clear above the 1. on stiff 
erect smooth or glabrescent purplish ped. strongly many- 
ribbed or striated and thickened upwards. Heads 9-10 lines 
in diam. ovate-globose or hemispherical, in bud globose. Scales 
of inv. very compact hard and horny broadly oblong trun- 
cate at top with the pale membranous soft lacerato-palmate 
apical appendage transversely hemispherical or lunate. Flo- 
rets exserted beyond the inv. 9 or 10 lines, pink- or rose- 
purple, the segin. linear-acuminate as long as the swollen 
upper part of the tube or l of the whole length. Ach. 5- 
0~ millim. long, 2 or scarcely 2 broad, compressed narrow- 
oblong, a little attenuated downwards and ending in a short 
dimidiate laterally incurved tail or cornucopiiform point, trun- 
cate at top with a short prominent chimney-like cylindric 
orange-col. little tube rising in the middle of the naked epigy- 
nous disk above the incurved subcontracted margin which is 
