418 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Senecto. 
more or less white with a short woolly sometimes obsolete tomentum 
especially on the lower surface of the leaves, 1-2 ft. high or more. 
Leaves deeply pinnatifid, oblong or obovate in outline, petiolate or the 
uppermost ones auriculate and sessile, 3-3 in. long; lobes oval ovate 
or oblong, mostly toothed or again pinnatifid. Capitula broadly cam- 
panulate slightly turbinate, 8-4 in. long, on peduncles of 3-2 in, 
solitary or subcymose. Calyculus of long linear bracts. Involucral 
bracts 15-20, linear, mostly cottony, about equalling the yellow florets. 
Ligule of the ray-florets oval or linear-oblong, about 3 in. long. Achenes 
striate, setulose.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 443. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, 12-13,500 ft. alt., Schimper / 
27. S. clarenceana, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vi. p. 14. 
Erect perennial herb, 1-5 ft. high, simple or branched, nearly glabrous 
or inconspicuously pubescent, leafy. Leaves oval or oblong, sessile, 
obtuse, auricled at the base, sinuously dentate or pinnately lobed with 
dentate lobes, 14-54 by 4-12 in. Capitula campanulate, $-} in. long, 
not radiate, on pedicels ranging up to % in., in a dense corymbose 
cyme. Calyculus of a few very small bracts. Involucral bracts about 
13, linear, acuminate, glabrous or densely pubescent with curly hairs. 
Florets red, 30-40. Achenes glabrous. 
SJpper Guinea. Fernando Po, at 9,000 ft. alt., Mann / Cameroon Mountains, 
at 7-11,000 ft. alt., Mann! 
Much resembling S. purpureus. Linn., from Table Mountain and other parts of 
Cape Colony; it may prove to be the same species, 
28. S$. Mannii, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vi. p. 14 A 
shining nearly glabrous tree, 15-25 ft. high. Branches leafy at the 
apex. Leaves narrowly oval, acuminate, taper-pointed, denticulate, 
puberulous on the midrib beneath, attenuate to a shortly petiolate base, 
membranous, 4-9 by 1-24 in., besides petiole of }-1 in. Capitula ob- 
long, 3 in. long, on short slender puberulous pedicels in dense panicl 
cymes. Calyculus consisting of a few filiform bracts. Involuc 
bracts 5, linear, somewhat cymbiform, glabrous, with an outcurving 
janceolate tip. Florets about 6, all tubular, yellow. Achenes minutely 
airy. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, alt. 2,500-7,500 ft. and Fernando Po, 
alt. 6,000 ft., Mann! 
29. S. gigas, Vatke in Linnea xxxix., p. 506 (1875). Anerect 
tree with the habit ofa palm, leafless below for 15-20 ft., with a leafy 
crown at top. Branches thick, pulverulent-tomentose towards the top. 
Leaves oval, pinnatifid, membranous, puberulous above, more 80 an 
paler beneath, 6-18 by 31-9 in., base sessile or subsessile, usually 
auriculate ; lobes ovate or oblong, serrate-denticulate and somewhat 
lobed. Capitula campanulate-oblong, 4-2 in. long, on short practeolate 
pedicels in dense bracteate corymbose or rounded cymes. Calyculus 
consisting of several narrowly linear pubescent bracts. Invola 
bracts 8, broadly linear, glabrous or nearly so, subobtuse, } in. long oF 
