Tas. 7731, 
SENECIO avricunarissiuus. 
Native of British Central Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe SenECIONIDEA. 
Genus Senecro, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 446.) 
SENECIO auriculatissimus ; frutex scandens, glaberrimus, divaricatim ramosus, 
ramis ramulisque teretibus levibus, foliis gracile pest id transverse 
oblongis obreniformibus v. late reniformi-rotundatis late crenatis palma- 
tim nervosis supra lete viridibus nervis obscuris subtus pallidis nervis 
validioribus, petiolo supra canaliculato basi in auriculam magnam ova- 
tam profunde cordatam amplexicaulem convexam dilatato, capitulis 
ad apices ramuloram laxe corymbosis gracile pedicellatis ad po licem 
diametro, pedicellis minute braceteolatis, involucri cylindracei basi rotun- — 
dati nudi bracteis linearibus acuminatis, floribus aureis radii 12-15. by 
lineari apice 3-crenata, disci tubulosis 5-dentatis, antherarum loculis basi 
 acutis, mt ramis revolutis obtusis ex-appendiculatis, acheniis lineari- 
bus alte 5-costatis costis puberulis, pappi mollis albi setis subscaberulis. 
8. auriculatissimus, Britten in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. vol. iv. pars i. p. 21. 
Engler Pflanzenw. Ost. Africa, Theil C. p. 418. 
This very remarkable groundsel is a native of Nyassa- 
land and of the Shiré Highlands, in British Central 
Africa. It was discovered in 1887 by Mr. J. T. Last, 
near Milangi, and has subsequently been sent from the 
Zomba Plateau, alt. five thousand feet, by Sir H. H. 
- Johnston, K.C.B., from Namapi, in Nyassaland, by Mr. 
Cameron, from Mt. Bombo, alt. four thousand feet to six 
thousand feet, by Mr. Whyte in 1896, and by Mr. J. 
Buchanan from the Shiré Highlands. In habit and the 
auricled petioles it resembles several Indian species, and 
the garden Cineraria. 
S. auriculatissimus was raised in the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, from seeds sent by Mr. John Mahon, Government 
Botanist, British Central Africa, in 1898. It flowered in 
the Conservatory in February of the present year, where 
it began to climb one of the pillars, and is a very attractive 
object. 
Descr.—A perfectly glabrous, climbing shrub, with 
terete, smooth stem, and divaricating branches. Leaves 
petioled, spreading, broader than long, transversely oblong 
-Aueust Ist, 1900. 
