other shrubs; it was discovered there by Broussonet many 
years ago, but only introduced into England last spring, 
where it flowered in the Royal Gardens in the following 
November. 
The genus Kleinia, to which the species of Senecio with 
small conical tips to their style-arms have been hitherto 
referred, and which would have been a very natural one, 
could it have been made to include only the plants with the 
habit of 8. pteroneura, has been abandoned by Mr. Bentham in 
his forthcoming revision of the order Composite for the 
Genera Plantarum. 
Drscr. Quite smooth, glaucous, glabrous. Sfems four to 
eight feet high, lax, suberect; branches inarticulate, except 
at the ramifications, cylindric, pale green, half to three-quar- 
ters of an inch in diameter, nearly straight, obtuse, quite 
smooth except for the three longitudinal ridges that run down — 
the surface from the small transversely oblong distant leaf- 
scars. Leaves only developed on the very young shoots, 
elliptic or lanceolate, acute or mucronate, green, nerveless, 
a quarter to three-quarters of an inch long. Heads solitary, or 
two or three at the tips of the branchlets, erect, cylindric, 
scarcely three-quarters of an inch long; contracted in the 
middle, with a few filiform bracts at the base; peduncles 
very stout, longer than the involucre, swollen upwards and 
gradually passing into the base ef the involucre. Jnvolucral 
scales twelve to fifteen, narrow-linear, convex at the back, 
so close placed as to appear connate by their margins 
nearly to the tips, which are scarcely recurved and acumi- 
nate, green, brownish-red about the middle. Receptacle pitted. 
Flowers about thirty, pale straw-coloured, much longer than the 
involucre, all spreading. Corolla-tube narrow, slender; seg- 
ments very short, obtuse. Sfyle-arms long, with conic tips. 
Pappus hairs very slender, white, much shorter than the corolla. 
Achene \inear, smooth.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of involucre; 2, flower; 3, hair of pappus :—all magnified. 
