404, LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN).  [Cweraria. 
80. CINERARIA, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 445. 
Capitula heterogamons, ray-florets ligulate yellow. Involucre cam- 
panulate, bracts 1-seriate equal, sometimes with a few outer shorter 
scales. Receptacle naked. Anther-base unappendaged.  Style- 
branches truncate papillose. Achenes at least the outer more or less 
compressed ; pappus of soft caducous sete.—Herbs or frutescent, with 
alternate roundish toothed or more or less lyrately pinnatifid leaves and 
corymbose cymes of small or medium-sized capitula. 
A genus chiefly South African, differing from Senecio simply in the compressed 
achenes., 
Disk achenes hispidulous, pale. Terminal lobe of leaves ; 
lanceolate. 2... 2 we 1 ew we ee es 1. CO. Schimperi. 
Achenes glabrous, black. Terminal lobe of leaves rounded 2. C. abyssinica. 
1. G. Schimperi, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. i. u. 184. 
Erect branched herb or shrubby, 1-10 ft. high or more. Leaves (at 
least the stem ones) sessile, auriculate-amplexicaul, lyrate-pinnatipar- 
tite, puberulous at least beneath, 14-3 by 4-1 in. ; lobes acutely toothed, 
the terminal one lanceolate acute, much the largest. Capitula § 1. 
long, on pedicels of 3-1 in., ina corymbose cyme. Involucral bracts 
linear acute glabrous. Achenes pale ; those of the ray margined, nearly 
glabrous ; those of the disk hispidulous.— Senecio lyratipartitus, Schultz 
Bip. 1. c. iii. n. 1843; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 439. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Hildebrandt ! 
2. CG. abyssinica, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. i. 0. 335. 
Repeatedly branched herb, slightly shrubby at base, 4-2 ft. high or more. 
Leaves pinnatipartite or pinnatifid, often lyrately so, sometimes not pin- 
nately lobed, petiolate or the upper ones subentire or simply dentate, 
sessile and amplexicanul, 1-23 by 4-24 in., including the petiole which 
is sometimes above 1-2 in. long, glabrescent above, whitish and sub- 
tomentose below ; lobes dentate and usually shallowly lobed, the term!- 
nal one of the lower leaves round in outline, much the largest. Capitala 
about } in. long, on pedicels of 4-1 in., in an ample corymbose cyme. 
Involucral bracts linear, acute, gradually tapering towards the apex; 
subglabrous or slightly woolly. Achenes glabrous, black, margined, not 
winged, with a prominent rib on the back and a less conspicuous one 
on the face.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 433. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper / 613,000 ft. alt.; at great altitude oD the 
Silké, Ferret and Galinier. » , ° e . 
Specimens collected by Mr. New on Kilima-njaro, at the last zone of vegetation 
below perpetual snow may be a glabrate variety of this species. 
The following forms differ from the type :— 
(1.) longiradiata. Upper leaves pinnately lobed, with large auricles ; lower leaves 
not pinnately lobed. Outer florets with rays about as long as the involucre.—™ 
grandiflora, Vatke in Linnea xxxix. p. 503 (1875). Abyssinia, Schimper ! a 
R 2) Rothii. Nearly all the leaves without pinnate lobes. Rays short. Abyssini@, 
oth! 
