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specimens were described by Mr. Baker as Senecio 
(Kleinia) longipes. A plant of it, given by Miss Cole to 
the Botanic Garden of the University of Cambridge, 
flowered there in June, 1899, and was sent for figuring in 
this Magazine by Mr. Lynch. 
Deser.—A fleshy, perfectly glabrous herb. ootstock 
nodose, emitting stout vermiform roots. Stem six to eight 
inches long, decumbent, copiously leafy, pale purplish. 
Leaves crowded, spreading and recurved, thickly fleshy, 
two to two and a half inches long, oval, oval-oblong, 
or spathulately oblong, obtuse (apiculate when dry), quite 
entire, very pale green, concolorous on both surfaces, base 
narrowed into a short, very stout petiole. Pedunele ter- 
minal, ten inches high, stout, quite naked, pale, grey- 
purple below the middle, green above it, dividing at the 
top into three stout branches or pedicels, each bearing a 
solitary large head of flowers. Pedicels green, bearing 
Scattered, small, lanceolate, membranous, deciduous scales. 
Inwolucre quite naked at the rounded and slightly intruded 
base, bright green, cylindric, two-thirds of an inch long 
by half an inch in diameter; bracts about twelve, cohering 
in a smooth tube for two-thirds of their length, above it 
free, lanceolate, acuminate, quite smooth and green to the 
tips, grooved when dry, Flowers forming a hemispheric 
scarlet head two inches in diameter, all much longer than 
the bracts, outer female, inner hermaphrodite. Corolla- 
tube slender, lobes lanceolate, obtuse, papillose. Style- 
arms of fem. fl. very long, with long, linear penicillate tips, 
of kermaph, fl. much shorter, with shorter tips. Anthers 
with the connective produced into a subulate erect append- 
age nearly half as long as the cells. Achenes quite smooth, 
cylindric, glabrous. Pappus copious, white ; hairs flexuous, 
shorter than the corolla-tube.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Female flower ; 
flower :—Ad/ enlarged, 2, hermaph. do.; 3, stamens; 4, styles of hermaph. 
