412 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Senecio. 
6. S. Schimperi, Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. i. n. 144 
et iii. n. 1880. Annual, but somewhat woody and often branched at 
the base, erect, glabrous, 1-14 ft. high. Leaves numerous, linear, 
narrowed to a callous tip, fleshy, entire or obscurely calloso-denticulate, 
margins revolute, 4-21, sessile. Capitula campanulate, }-4 in. long, 
on pedicels of 4-2 in., in a corymbose cyme. Calyculus of 10-12 lan- 
ceolate-acuminate bracts. Involucral bracts narrowly lanceolate acute, 
8-nerved, with narrow scarious margins, rather falling short of the 
florets. Ray-florets wanting. Achenes terete, costate, setulose on 
the ribs ; setule very short.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 485. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! Q. Dillon, Petit. 
According to Ascherson in Schweinfurth’s Beitr. Fl. Athiop. p. 158, this species 
also occurs in Arabia. 
7. S. coronopifolius, Desf. Fl. Ail. ii. p. 273. Annual, 4-24, in. 
high, erect, branched, glabrous in most parts. Leaves fleshy, sessile, 
semi-amplexicaul, pinnately lobed or entire, 1-2 in. long, lobes hmear 
and sometimes dentate or dentiform; margins revolute. Capitula 
campanulate, at length hemispherical, about } in. long, 1 or few to- 
gether, on peduncles or pedicels ranging up to 14 in., forming a wide 
corymbose cyme. Calyculus of 6-8 short lanceolate bracts. — Involu- 
cral bracts linear, sometimes broadly so, with a lanceolate tip, dark- 
coloured at the apex, with narrow scarious margins, about equalling 
the florets. Ligule of the marginal florets oblong, shorter than the 
involucre. Achenes costate, minutely setulose.—DC. Prodr. vl. Pp. 344. 
es thie Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. p. 157, 0. 
Wile Zand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Oceurs in the Oriental regions and extends to Affghanistan. 
8. S. pinnatipartitus, Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. m1. 
n. 1873. Annual, glabrons or nearly so, erect, simple or but little 
branched, 9-18 in. high. Lowest leaves subrotund or oval, 3-1 1. 
long, dentate, narrowed into a petiole of 3-1} in. ; lower leaves pinna- 
tipartite, sublyrate, petiolate, 11-2} in. long, including the petiole ; 
upper leaves rather smaller, sessile, pinnatipartite, with linear or ob- 
long toothed or entire lobes. Capitula campanulate, about } in. long; 
on pedicels of }-1 in., in rather small corymbose cymes of 1-2 1. 
diameter. Calyculus of short lanceolate-acuminate bracts. Involucral 
bracts linear, about 3-nerved, with a lanceolate tip and a narrow 
_ scarious margin, equalling the florets. Ligule of the ray-florets 
recurved, very short. Achenes costate, setulose on the ribs; setule 
short, thick. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! tt 
A. Richard in Fl. Abyss. i. p. 438, unites this with S. egyptius, Linn., regarding ! 
as a less luxuriant state of the latter, from which however it appears to differ by the 
shape of the involucre and by the broader tigure of the involucral bracts. 
9. S. Perrottetii, DC. Prodr. vi. p. 343. Annual, erect, gia 
brous, simple or branched, 1-2 ft. high. Lower leaves attenuate 17 
