Tap, 5959, . 
SENECIO PULCHER. 
Native of Uraguay. 
Nat. Ord. Compostr#—Tribe, SENECIONIDER. 
Genus SENECIO, Linn. ; (De Candolle, Prod., vol. vi. p. 340). 
SENECIO pulcher ; annuus, arachnoideus, caule cylindrico robusto simplici v. 
ramoso, foliis crasse herbaceis oblongo-lanceolatis irregulariter lobulatis 
lobulis crenato-dentatis radicalibus breviter petiolatis caulinis sessilibus 
costa nervisque crassis, pedunculis bracteatis, capitulis maximis corym- 
bosis, involucri latissime campanulati foliolis crassis oblongo-lanceo- 
latis subacutis omnino viridibus exterioribus numerosis interioribus 
dimidio brevioribus, ligulis 20-30 latis purpureis disco aureo ter 
longioribus. 
Senico pulcher, Hook. and Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot., vol. iii. (1841) p. 337. 
Certainly the handsomest Groundsel hitherto discovered, — 
and truly designated by its original describers, and this from 
dried specimens that had lost all their beauty, as “a splendid 
plant, one to four feet high, with flowers two inches and 
more in diameter, the ray purple.” It was discovered at the 
foot of the Sugar-Loaf Mountain, near Maldonado, and at 
Aldoa, west of Portalegre, in S. Brazil, by that indefatigable 
traveller and gardener, Tweedie, nearly forty years ago, and 
there are also specimens in the Hookerian Herbarium, 
gathered on grassy hills near Maldonado by Mr. Fox, late 
British Minister in Uraguay. : 
The introducer of the plant into England is Mr. J. 
Tyerman, formerly of Kew, and for many years the skilful 
and energetic Superintendent of the Liverpool Gardens ; now 
of Penlee Tregooney, in Cornwall, where he raised it from 
seed sent from Buenos Ayres, flowered it in November 1871, 
and sent it to Kew for determination. 
Duscr. Annual, very robust, one to four feet high, bright- 
green, sparingly clothed with lax cobwebby wool, especially 
APRIL Ist, 1872. FS 
