3io Stapf. — Statices of the Canaries of the Subsection Nobiles. II. 
Pubescence extending over the whole plant, or confined to the 
ultimate divisions of the panicle and the bracts ; primary axis of 
the inflorescence and its primary divisions winged; auricles below the 
‘ spicae ’ obtuse, rarely with a short broad acute point ; inner bracts 
rounded on the back, and with a conspicuous crisp blue frill ; leaves 
sessile or petioled, blades entire or sinuately lobed. 
Only the ultimate and subultimate divisions of the panicle and 
the bracts pubescent; axial wings narrow; leaves sessile, entire, 
long attenuated towards the base. S. macrophylla. 
All over pubescent, when young, or permanently ; axial wings 
broad ; leaves petioled, lobed. 
Pubescence delicate ; auricles below the ‘ spicae ’ broad ; 
leaf-blades deeply sinuately lobed below the middle. 
Pubescence more or less persistent ; axial wings up 
to 13mm. broad; auricles below the ‘spicae’ up to 
4 mm. broad. S. brassicifolia (typica). 
Pubescence gradually more or less disappearing ; axial 
wings up to 25 mm. broad ; auricles below the £ spicae’ 
up to 9 mm. broad. S. brassicifolia f. macroptera. 
Pubescence dense, velvety, persistent ; auricles below the 
‘ spicae ’ small ; leaf-blades runcinately pinnatipartite, lobes 
obovate to obliquely reniform, overlapping, decreasing base- 
wards. S. imbricata. 
Ultimate divisions of the panicle not winged or auricled ; leaves with coarse, 
stellate or fascicled hairs, rarely glabrous ; inflorescence uniformly pubescent in the 
upper part, with intermixed coarse fascicled hairs on the primary axis and main 
branches. 
With the small inflorescences up to 1 dm. high ; leaf-blades in dense 
rosettes up to 3 (rarely to 6) cm. long, not, or very obscurely, lobed. 
S. puberula (typica). 
With the large inflorescences up to 5 dm. high ; leaf-blades in loose 
rosettes, up to 1 1 cm. long, the decurrent base usually lobed. 
S. puberula var. Bourgaei. 
