Tas. 6216. 
SENECIO (Kug1nra) CHORDIFOLIA. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat, Ord, Composit2.—Tribe SENECIONIDEZ. 
Genus SENECIO, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f., Gen. Plant., vol, ii., p. 446). 
SENECIO (Kleinia) chordifolia ; suffruticosa, glaberrima, caule gracili erecto sim- 
pliusculo, foliis 7-10-pollicaribus chordiformibus teretibus subacutis, cymis 
elongatis laxis remote furcatis paucifloris, ramis erectis 3-5-pollicaribus, 
bracteis ad axillas parvis subulatis, capitulis 3-3 pollicaribus angustis 
cylindraceis basi bracteolis paucis patentibus setaceis instructis, foliolis ad 
15 linearibus acuminatis marginibus membranaceis, floribus flavis, corolle 
lobis brevibus, styli ramis apice truncatis, achenio cylindraceo pubescente. 
A very curious succulent Groundsel, remarkable for the 
great length of its simple, terete, cylindrical leaves, which 
droop from the long, slender branches, and for the lax, 
slender, very few-flowered cymes. I find no species described 
in Harvey and Sonder’s “Flora of the Cape” with which it 
can be confounded, though it is evidently nearest to Kleinia 
crassulefolia, DC. (not of Baker in Saunders’ Refug., vol. 1., 
t. 7), in which, however, the leaves are only two to three 
inches long. 
The Kieinias of Haworth, and, following him, of De 
Candolle and Harvey, are, with the exception of one or two 
North African and’ Arabian species, all South African, and 
comprise two sets of plants. Of these one set has conical 
tips to the style-arms, and often a more rigid pappus ; the 
other has truncated tips to the style-arms and a soft pappus. 
To the former, which differs in no way from the Indian genus 
Notonia, belong K. Anteruphorbium (figured in last year’s 
volume of the Magazine, Tab. 6099, under Senecio) and . 
fulgens (Tab. nost. 5590); whilst to the latter belongs EK. 
Haworthii (Tab. nost. 6063, Senecio), together with this and 
other species. Bentham (Gen. Plant., vol. U., Pp. 449) has 
rightly merged Kleinia into Senecio, and noted its passing 
into Notonia, which latter genus must no doubt follow it ; 
the Indian plant being regarded as an outlier of this succulent 
Fgprvary Ist, 1876. 
