414, LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Senecio. 
radiate, on short pedicels, in a dense subumbelliform cyme 1-3 in. 
diameter. Calyculus of 2-3 small filiform bracts. Involucral bracts 
usually 5, linear-oblong, obtuse, with scarious margins. Florets 5. 
Achenes silky.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 434, tab. 58. Cacalia tube- 
rosa, Delile in Ferret and Galinier, Voy. Abyss. iii. p. 142, non Nutt. 
C. abyssinica, Walp. Ann. ii. p. 908, non Br. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! ~Q. Dillon. Beccari! Gallabat, 
Schweinfurth! Ferret and Galinier. 
Root eaten. . 
S. solanoides, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ZEthiop. p. 159, from Abyssinia, 
differs from the above by “ leaves large sinuate-dentate pinnatifid puberulous.” 
These two species constitute the genus Solanecio, Walp. Rep. vi. p. 273. 
13. S. Hochstetteri, Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. i, 0. 
268. Rootstock thick, not vertical. Stem erect, terete, striate, sub- 
scabrid, 9-18 in. high. Radical leaves numerous, oval-spathulate, 
obtuse, subscabrid, irregularly toothed or compound-dentate, narrowed 
at the base into a petiole which is dilated and amplexicaul and about 
equalling the lamina, altogether 4-13 in. long; stem-leaves few, sessile, 
linear, small, passing upwards into the bracts. Capitula campanulate, 
2-4 in. long, on pedicels of 3-3 in. long, in a rather lax corymb. Caly- 
culus of few small lax linear bracts. Involucral bracts linear-lanceo- 
late, glandular-puberulous, about 10. Florets all tubular, numerous. 
Achenes slightly hairy.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 435. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
14. S. paucifolius, DO. Prodr. vi. p. 403. An erect glabrous 
perennial herb, 1-2 ft. high. Root thickened. Stem leafy towards 
the base, nearly naked above. Leaves oval or obovate, obtuse or apl- 
culate, with a few teeth or nearly entire, narrowed towards the 
scarcely petiolate base, 1-3 by xl in. Capitula broadly campanulate, 
ei in. long, on pedicels of 4-21 in., 3-13 together, in a lax corym- 
e pedunculate cyme. Calyculus of very few short bracts. Tnvola- 
cral bracts linear, about 12, nearly equalling the florets. Ligule of 
the ray-florets oblong, about 4-4 in. long, yellow. Disk-florets very 
numerous. Achenes glabrous.—Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. iil. p. 377. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Kirk! Moramballa, 1,500-3,000 ft., Kirk! 
Occurs also in southern and eastern districts of Cape Colony. . : 
Our specimens differ from the type in less scapiform inflorescence and in not quite 
entire leaves ; they also differ from S. rhomboideus, Harv., by the presence of ray- 
orets. 
15. S$. bupleuroides, DC. Prodr. vi. p. 387. Erect glabrous 
fleshy perennial herb, 2-23 ft. high, woolly at the crown of the root ; 
stem leafy, not much branched, striate. Stem-leaves oblong or 1an- 
ceolate, sessile, cordate-amplexicaul, rigid, 2-5 by }-1j in., margins 
revolute, denticulate or subentire. Capitula turbinate, 3-3 in. long, 
about 15-20-flowered, on slender pedicels of }—14 in., in a repeatedly 
branched corymbose cyme. Calyculus 0 (in our specimens). Invola- 
cral bracts 8-10, linear, with a ciliolate tip, } in. long. Ray-forets 
