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minator as Solander could liave referred any state of this pi. 
as a var. to S. fruticosus. 
(c) Shrubby, per. 
4. S. pinnatus Ait. 
Altogether smooth sparingly branched, branches rather long 
and slender straggling straight naked even ; 1. in terminal tufts 
full or dark gr. above, glaucescent beneath, lanceolate acute or 
linear-lanceolate acuminato-caudate pectinately pinnate, pinnae 
numerous distinct lanceolate or linear remotely pinnatifidly 
toothed or subentire ; cyme terminal large ample many -lid. 
naked except a small pinnate 1. at the axil of the main lower 
forks compound, branches straight rigid divaricate, fl. umbel- 
late at their ends ; ped. slender thickened upwards, naked or 
with a few minute scarious deciduous bractlets ; scales of inv. 
close-pressed pale gr. darker upwards. — Ait. ! Hort. Kew. ed. 1 . 
iii. 116; Pers. ii. 363; Buck ! 194. no. 218; Spr. iii. 647; 
DC. ! vii. 188; WB. ii. 439 (excl. var. (3. Palmensis t. 130). S. 
hyoset'ifolius v. hyoseridifoUiis Ilornem. u Hort. Hafn. ii. 752 
Spr. iii. 647 (certissime sec. Schultz, in WB. ii. 441 dicentem, 
“Nomine S. pinnati cl. Ilornem. semina plantae suae e Bri- 
tannia habuisse ”). — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 3, J. Perpendicular 
rocks and cliffs high up in all the principal ravines; llib. de S a 
Luzia, da Metade, de S. Jorge, da Boa Ventura, &c. ; Caminho 
Central between the Primeira Vista and Pico Grande, and 
especially abundant descending thence into the Curral das 
Freiras. July, Aug. — A fine shr. 2-6 ft. high starting from 
the clefts of high bare wall's of rock, with long naked taunt- 
ingly spreading or ascending woody greyish smooth and even 
branches about the thickness of the little finger, each with a 
terminal spreading rose or tuft of shining handsome foliage. 
L. 6-12 in. long or more, extremely variable both in general 
outline and in the breadth of the pinnae, dark gr. above with a 
pale midrib, beneath slightly glaucous with darker reticulating 
veins; pinnae 10-15 or more, regularly pectinate and becoming 
gradually shorter from the middle towards each end ; those of 
the upper 1. always narrower and more entire than in tin' 
lower; tin; terminal lobe mostly acuminato-caudate and entire. 
Cyme rising from the middle of the tufts of 1. very large ample 
and many-fid. with a small pinnate 1. at each of its lower main 
divisions, otherwise naked except a few inconspicuous scarious 
brown scale-like bractlets, one at each division ; it extends 
from I to 3 or 4 ft. beyond the terminal leaf-tuft, and its 
branches are slender still’ pahs gr. elegantly marked with darker 
gr. lines. Fl. large 1-2 in. in diam. bright golden-y. ; upper 
half of tube of florets copiously glandular-hairy or pubescent: 
stigmas recurved. Heads erect, in all stages obovate or pear- 
