47. COMPOSITACE-E. 
54S 
late subcaudato-acuminate pectinately or runcinately pinnati- 
partite or pinnatisect, their lobes or pinnae shortly oblong acute 
or acuminate subentire or sparingly and remotely toothed or 
subpinnatifid ; fl.-st. erect single scape-like naked leafless regu- 
larly dichotomous or fork-branched upwards into a naked 
mostly few-fld. corymbose cyme, the branches and ped. diva- 
ricate smooth naked, the latter thickened upwards ; scales of 
inv. close-pressed discoloured ustulate (dark reddish v. or 
blackish -purple). — Prim. 22; DO.! vii. 189; WB. ii. 441 
(Obs. 2). — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1, £ or ■£. Sea-cliffs at the 
Praia, mouth of the Soccorridos Ravine, &c. ; at Paul do Mar ; 
P ta do Pargo ; the Entrosa abundant ; indeed general along 
both the S. and N. coasts of Mad. especially to the westward, 
but not found in PS. and rarely in the Pesertas. Oct.-Dec. 
Varr. : — 
a. anc/ustifolia ; 1. very glaucous stiff and fleshy acute or 
finely caudato-acuminate, pinnse pectinate distinct narrow 
mostly much longer (A or 4 times) than broad sharp-toothed 
acute or acuminate. — Prim. 23; var. /3 I)C. ! 1. c. S. dentatm 
Sol. ! in P>IL et MSS. ; Buch ! 194. no. 220. — On exposed, dry, 
or sunny rocks. 
/3. imbricata ; like a, but pinnre of 1. approximato-imbricate 
and broadly rhomboidal, as broad as long, acute sharply angu- 
lar, the terminal lobe acute narrow small. — S. ustulatus Mason ! 
249 A, Madera, Dezertas, N. H. Mason (1857) in BH. — 
The axils of the 1. are fawn-coloured-velvety in the single 
example in BIT. 
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y. /at /folia ; 1. scarcely glaucous above, somewhat flaccid thin 
or membranous; lobes larger broader more remote and leafy 
than in n, about twice as long as broad. — Var. j 8 Prim. 23: 
var. « DC. ! 1. c. S. ustulatus Mason ! no. 249 (Madera N. H. 
Mason 1857) in B1I. S. aquarrosus s. fndicosus f3 Sol.! MSS. 
and BII. — In more sheltered, hollow, moist or shady spots; 
a mere luxuriant form of the sp. 
Root strong thick fleshy scarcely branched or fibrous, striking 
deep into the clefts or crevices of perpendicular bare walls of 
rock, bearing at the crown one or more rose-like tufts of ra- 
diating stiffish succulent more or less glaucous and runcinately 
pinnate 1., out of the centre of which rises the single annual 
stiffly erect hard but truly herbaceous round glaucescent naked 
fl.-st. from 9-12 in. high, dying down after flowering quite to 
the base. True st. none or only occasional in old pi. ; and then 
short and thick (1-2 or 3 in. long), rough or rugged with the 
coarse and crowded remains of the 1. of former years, hard but 
not reallv woody, the pi. being always simply and truly her- 
baceous. Whole pi. very smooth except the quite young 1. or 
