Tab. 5396. 



SENECIO PYRAMIDATUS. 



Pyramidal Groundsel. 



Nat. Ord. Composite. — Syngenesia Superflua. 



Gen. Char. Capitulum homogamum discoideum aut heterogamum, /. radii 

 bgulatis foemineis. Livol. 1-serialis nunc nudi nunc squamellis 'accessoriis 

 calyculati squamae ssepius apice sphacelates, margine subscariosae, dorso frequenter 

 binervatse. Recept. epaleaceum nudum alveolatmnve. Styli fi. hermaphr. rami 

 truncati, apiceque solo penicellati ! Achanium erostre exalatum teretiusculum 

 aut sulcato-angulatura. Pappus pilosus, pluriserialis, caducus, setis rectis sub- 

 sequalibus tenuissirais vix scabris.— Herbse aut fruticea innumeri, polymorph.. 

 Species per totum orbem terrarum divulgate, sed eadem in pluribus regionibus vix 

 occurrences. Folia alterna, in 2 (dubiis) opposita. Capitula solitaria corymbosa 

 vel paniculata. Cor. disci fere semper lutea, rarissime purpurea, nunquam nisi 

 culta alba ! Ligulae etiamflava, rarius purpurascevtes aut alba. Be Cand. 



SvKvcio pyramidatus ,■ caule basi suffruticoso-carnoso superne elongato aphyllo 

 tomentoso, foliia ad basin coni'ertis sessilibus teretiusculis carnosis cum 

 caule glabns araneosisve, racemo thyrsoideo elongato, pedicellis bracteolatis, 

 capituhs radiatis circiter 60-floris, mvolucro sublanato pauce calyculato lieu- 

 lis 10-12, achaeniis glabris. Be Cand. 



Senecio pyramidatus. Be Cand. Prodr. v. G. p. 402. 



Professor De Candolle, so long ago as 1837, enumerated no 

 less than a hundred and seventy-eight species of the genus Se- 

 necio, natives of extratropical South Africa, out of the^fivc hun- 

 dred and ninety-six he has described ; and, no doubt, Drs. Harvey 

 and Sonder will be able considerably to increase the number in 

 the forthcoming volume of their 'Flora Capensis.' Many of them, 

 as is the case in the present instance, are remarkable for the num- 

 ber and size of the flowers, and not a few for their glaucous, en- 

 tire, fleshy, and cylindrical leaves (Xteinoidei, DC). S. pyrami- 

 datus is perhaps among the most ornamental of the genus, and 

 appears to have been first detected by Ecklon and Zeyher at 

 Uitenhage, and since found by Henry Hutton, Esq., to whom 

 we are indebted for our living plant. Its flowers are produced 

 in June. 



aigust 1st, 18C:J. 



