402 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Gynura. 
campanulate ; bracts 1-seriate narrow equal with a few outer smaller. 
Receptacle foveolate or minutely fimbrillate. Anther-base entire or 
bidentate. Style-branches slender with subulate appendices. Achenes 
terete striate; pappus of copious white fine setea.—Herbs with alter- 
nate pinnatifid-lyrate dentate or entire leaves and yellow orange-red or 
violet terminal medium-sized capitula, either solitary or more or less 
corymbose. 
A genus of the Old World, differing from discoid species of Senecio in the longer 
subulate appendix of the style-branches. 
Heads always solitary. 
Corollas purple, falling short of the pappus. Upper 
leaves sessile. . . . 2... 1 ee e ee 1. G. cernua, 
Corollas yellow, equalling or exceeding the pappus. 
Leaves mostly petiolate . . . . 2. 1 
Heads in corymbose cymes (very rarely solitary). 
Leaves mostly lyrate or pinnatifid, the lower ones petiolate. 
2. G. vitellina. 
Margins of the leaves acutely dentate . . . . . 3. G. crepidioides. 
Margins ofthe leavesrepand . . . .. . . . 4 G,minitata, 
Leaves sessile, amplexicaul, not pinnatifid . . . . . 5. G. amplexicaulis. 
1. G. cernua, Benth. in Hook. Nig. Fl. p. 437, excl. syn. part. 
Erect branched puberulous annual, about 2-3 ft. high. Leaves 1rre- 
gularly dentate or lobed, 1-4 in. long ; the upper ones sessile ovate oT 
oblong or laciniate-lyrate, auriculate-amplexicaul at the base; the 
lower ones petiolate. Capitula solitary, terminal, }-3 in. long, oblong 
soon becoming hemispherical ; peduncles mostly 6-12 in. long, bearin: 
a few linear or subulate bracts. Involucral bracts linear subulate gla- 
brous. Disk with filiform bracts below, somewhat hairy. Corollas 
slender shorter than the pappus, teeth minute scarcely spreading, purple. 
Anthers included.—Senecio cernuus, Linn. fil. Suppl. Pl. p. 370 (1781) 3 
Crassocephalum cernuum, Moench. Meth. Pl. p. 516 (1794) ; Cremoce- 
phalum (sp.) Cass. Dict. xxxiv. p. 391 (1825); Cacalia wniflora, Schum. 
& Thonn. Beskr. p. 382 (1827) ; Senecio rubens, Jacq. Hort. Vindob. 1. 
p. 50,t. 98 (1777). 
Upper Guinea. Guinea, Thonning! Niger, Vogel! Barter! . 
Wile Land. Sennaar, Cienkowsky; Abyssinia, Schimper ! 6-7,000 ft. alt. ; Djur 
land, Schweinfurth ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Manganja Hills, Meller! 
Extends to the Comoro and other African Islands. 
2. @. vitellina, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 438. Subglabrous 
or puberulous somewhat shining herb, 2-6 ft. high, ascending from @ 
procumbent base, with patent branches, sometimes subscandent. 
Leaves ovate or lanceolate, mostly petiolate, irregularly dentate, some- 
times indistipctly lobed, broad near the base, 1-4 in. long, besides the 
petiole of 3-14 in. which has stipuliform auricles at base. Capitula 
2-4 in. long, erect or somewhat drooping, subhemispherical, solitary; 
terminal, on peduncles of 4~12 in., which bear about2 or 3 narrow 
bracts. Involucral bracts linear-subulate, more or less hairy. isk 
hairy with filiform bracts below. Corollas wider upwards, yellow, 
