408 LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Notona. 
narrow acute outer bracts added. Achenes glabrous, shining, ; in. 
long. Pappus exceeding the corollas. 
Wile Gand. Dar Fertit, by Damuri on the Pango, Schweinfurth! 
5. N. trachycarpa, Kotschy in Pl. Binder. p. 21, t. 8 (1866). A 
procumbent fleshy somewhat shrubby herb, quite glabrous, branched 
from the base. Sterile branches leafy, 2-4 in. long, thick ; flowering 
branches thicker, longer, nearly leafless by the previous fall of the 
leaves. Leaves subulate-terete, subdecurrent, approximated, erect- 
patent, ranging up tol in. long. Peduncles scapiform, 3-9 in. long, 
terminal, 2 together, gradually thickened toward the apex, remotely 
bracteate. Capitula solitary, oblong-campanulate, 1 in. long, not 
calyculate. Involucral bracts 8-9, linear, acute or pointed, 34 in. 
long. Florets about 30, all tubular; corolla lilac or rose, colourel. 
Achenes compressed, 10—12-costate, setulose, nearly 4 in. longo 
semperviva, Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. p. 152, n. a’ 
(1867) ; Cacalia semperviva, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt; Arab. p. 146 (1778) 
C. sempervirens, Vahl Symb. iii. p. 92 (1794) ; Kleinia semperviva, ps 
Prodr. vi. p. 339; fide Aschers. in Schweinf.Beitr. Fl. Althiop. p. 152, 
n. 792 (1867). 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Boghos, Hansal, Schimper, Habab, Hildebrandt, 424; 
? Somali, Hildebrandt! 844, 1447, at altitude of 4000-5000 ft., on chalk (NV. semper- 
viva, Aschers. in Schweinf. Fl. ZEthiop. 152). 
Kotschy l.c. quotes as synonymous, but with a mark of doubt, Cacalia penines 
Forsk. Fl. Aig.-Arab. 145 (Kleinia? pendula, DC. Prodr. vi. 339) from Arabia rm 
Ascherson, l.c., unites the Abyssinian plant with Forskal’s Arabian species, to 
calia semperviva ; the latter, however, is described as heads 60-flowered. He & 
unites N. grandiflora, DC., i.e., Cacalia grandiflora, Wall., an East Indian species. 
83. SENECIO, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 441. 
Capitula heterogamous radiate, ray-florets ? ligulate or Rapa 
and homogamous. Involucre from hemispherical to cylindrica ; 
bracts 1-seriate, equal, erect, imbricate (often by narrow margins), free, 
sometimes inserted around a distinctly dilated receptacle, with a few 
outer usually much shorter bracts at the base forming @ calyculus. 
Receptacle naked or shortly fimbrillate. Style-branches recurved or 
spreading truncate and penicillate or with a short terminal appendix. 
Achenes subterete usually 5-10-costate or striate; pappus copious 0 
fine white sete.—Herbs shrubs or arborescent, with alternate entire 
toothed pinnatifid or variously lobed leaves rarely aphyllous, and soli- 
tary or cymose heads, usually yellow or purple. 
An enormous cosmopolitan genus; most of the following species appear to be endemic. 
Root annual, or occasionally biennial (as in S. arabicus, L.) 
Calyculus obsolete. 
Capitula radiate. _ 
Capitula 1-3 together, on peduncles of 3-7 in.. . 1. S. abyssinicus. 
Capitula 4-12 together or more, on pedicels rang- eas 
ing up to 1% in. te ee ew ww we 2 &, discifolins. 
Capitula discoid, without rays . 
Calyculus present. 
Capitula discoid, without rays. 
ves pinnatisect or pinnatifid. 
te Be (2) emilioides. 
