group of Senecio, which extends from Marocco and the Canary 
Islands to Arabia, and thence to India. 
S. chordifolia is one of Mr. Cooper’s South African dis- 
coveries; he found it at Busghersdorf, in the Albert province, 
in 1861. It flowered at Kew in July, 1874; the specimen 
was presented by Mr. Kennedy. 
Descr. A very slender, glabrous, fleshy plant, about a 
foot high, with a very sparingly branched stem that is woody 
towards the base. eaves seven to ten inches long by a 
quarter of an inch in diameter, acute, cylindric, but fiattened 
above towards the base, terete, smooth, pale green, drooping. 
Cymes very slender, six to ten inches long, sparingly forked, 
the branches erect, very long, with small subulate gréen 
bracts at the forks; terminal pedicels slender, two to three 
inches long, lateral very short. Heads very few, two-thirds 
of an inch long, narrow. Involucre green, with a few bristle- 
shaped, spreading bracteoles at the base; leaflets about six- 
teen, linear, acute, with membranous margins. Flowers 
yellow. Corolla-lobes very short. Style-arms truncate. 
Pappus very soft, white, and slender. Achenes slender, 
pubescent.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Whole plant, reduced; 2, branch, leaves, and cyme, of the natural size 
3, flower; 4, stamen ; and 5, style-arms :—all magnified. 
