Senecio. ] LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 417 
22. S. Fresenii, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Athiop. p. 
160. Perennial, arachnoid, with the habit of S. paludosus, Linn. Stems 
herbaceous. Leaves elongate linear-lanceolate, sagittate, closely serru- 
late. Capitula radiate, yellow, collected in a crowded corymb. Invo- 
lucre glabrous. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, between Halei and Temben, Riippell. 
We have seen no specimen. 
23. S. Schultzii, Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 1278. 
Erect hispid-pubescent perennial herb, 1-2 ft. high. Stem simple or 
nearly so, leafy. Leaves linear-oblong, sessile, mostly obtuse, obtusely 
dentate, 1-6 in. long, the upper ones dilated and somewhat auricled at 
the base, the lower gradually narrowed downward to near the base. 
Capitula hemispherical, about 1 in. diam., on bracteate peduncles or 
pedicels ranging up to 34 in., in a hemispherical cyme of 3-6 in. diam. 
Calyculus of many lax narrowly linear bracts, some nearly equalling 
the involucre. Involucral bracts 25-30, linear, with scarious margins, 
@ lanceolate acuminate apex and dark tip. Lignle of the ray- 
florets 3-2 in. long, linear. Achenes glabrous, costate, oblong.—A. 
Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 444. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
24. S$. myriocephalus, Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. 11. 
n. 837 and 1238. An erect leafy suffruticose perennial, 2 ft. or more 
high, Stem terete, glabrate below, somewhat cottony above. Leaves 
ear-oval, narrowed towards both ends, sessile, auriculate, denticulate, 
dark and subglabrous above, white with an obsolete tomentum beneath, 
14 by §-lin. Capitula campanulate, +4 in. long, very numerous, on 
leels ranging up to 1 in., ina dense much branched corymbose or 
hemispherical cyme of 4-12in. diam. Calyculus of a few short lan- 
ceolate acuminate bracts. Involucral bracts about 13, linear, acute, 
nearly glabrous with a ciliolate dark tip. Ligule of the ray-florets 
oval, about 4 in, long, yellow. Disk-florets yellow. Achenes striate, 
Setulose.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 441. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! Petit ! 
Used for expelling black ants (Roth). 
B 25. S. steudelioides, Sch. Bip. in Schwf. Fl. Aithiop. p. 157. 
Tanches closely sulcate, thinly appressed, cottony above, glabrate be- 
Ow. Leaves linear-oblong, coarsely dentate or unequally pinnately 
toothed, the lower occasionally with a large median lobe on either side, 
wore or less whitish cottony especially beneath, at length glabrescent, 
Mm. long. Capitula loosely cymose, discoid or ray mconspicuous, 
yellow, broadly campanulate, #-? in. diam., on peduncles varying to 
Tues or more. Calyculus of rather long linear or subulate bracts. 
nvolucral bracts 15-20, oblong-lanceolate, more or less cottony. 
€nes setulose. 
Mile Lana. Abyssinia, alt. 10,500 ft., Schimper ! 
E 26. Ss. farinaceus, Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 751. 
or ascending, perennial, shrubby below, cespitosely branched, 
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