416 LXXIII, COMPOSITZ (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Senecio. 
Much resembling 8. confertus, Schultz Bip., but differing by broader not auricu- 
late leaves, by the broader involucres with narrower more numerous bracts, and es- 
pecially by the glabrous achenes. 
19. S. Burtoni, Hook. f. in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. Lond. vii. p. 202. 
A robust erect perennial herb, 3-4 ft. high, white-cottony above. 
Stem striate. Stem-leaves ovate ovate-lanceolate or -oblong, acumi- 
nate or acute, sessile, amplexicaul, closely denticulate with callous tips, 
white-tomentose beneath, thinly so above, 14-12 by 4-3 in. Capitula 
campanulate, slightly turbinate, about $ in. long, on pedicels of 
4-1 in., in a corymbose or rounded cyme. Calyculus of a few unequal, 
filiform or linear bracts. Involucral bracts 15-20, linear, with lanceo- 
late tip and scarious margins, about } in. long, thinly pilose. Liguleof 
the ray-florets yellow, oval-oblong, about 4 in. long. Disk-florets 
30-40. Achenes glabrous, costate, black, } in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, alt., 8-12,000 ft., Mann / 
20. S. ochrocarpus, 0. § H. An erect leafy pallid perennial 
shrub-like herb, 4 ft. high or more, from a thickened root covered with 
tomentose tubercles and giving off elongated fibres. Stem simple or 
nearly so, sulcate and striate, puberulous. Stem-leaves ovate-lanceo- 
late oval or upper lanceolate, sessile, amplexicaul, subobtuse at the 
apiculate apex, broad and somewhat or scarcely auriculate at the base, 
denticulate with triangular apiculate teeth, 24-7 in. long. Capitula 
campanulate, 3-3 in. long, on pedicels of }-1} in., in a corymbose 
thinly lanate cyme. Calyculus of a few filiform bracts, 4-4 of the 
length of the involucre. Involucral bracts 13-15, linear, thinly pilose, 
with a dark tip, }-4 in. long, arising from a thickened disk which 18 
ultimately conspicuous. Ligule of the ray-florets orange, linear, about 
in. long. Corolla of disk-florets with a conical base terminating upw 
in a slender constriction. Achenes pale, glabrous, costate, 3 in. long. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! by swamps at elevation of 8,500 ft. 
21. S. Steudelii, Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. 0. 750. 
Krect perennial herb, 2-4 ft. high. Stem glabrous and soon naked 
below, leafy and slightly cottony above, simple or but little branched. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile, acute, denticulate, glabrate oF 
somewhat cottony when young, 2-8 in. long ; the upper ones cordate- 
auriculate. Capitula campanulate, 44 in. long, on bracteate pedicels 
ranging up to 4in. in acorymbose cyme. Calyculns of a few lax 
narrowly linear bracts like those on the pedicels. Involucral bracts 
about 15, linear-lanceolate, somewhat pubescent, with scarious margim 
and dark pointed tip, about equalling the disk-florets. Ligule of the 
ray-florets 3-Zin. long. Achenes costate, oblong, glabrous.—A. Rich. 
Fl. Abyss. 1. p. 440. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Petit ! (var. a. albido-tomentosa, Rich. 1. ¢., a luxuriant state with upper part of 
stem and leaves white-cottony and teeth of leaves irregular and obtuse). +s 
8. steudelioides, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. 157, from Abyssi™® 
differs from S. Steudelii, by sinuate-dentate pinnatifid cottony and hairy aahene® 
and leayes with revolute margins. 
