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SENECIO maentricts. 
Native of Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Composit..—Tribe SENECIONIDE™. 
Genus Senecio, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 446). 
Srexucio (Radiati) magnificus; suffrutex glaberrimus, glaucus, caule erecto 
rubusto ramisque teretibus foliosis, foliis grosse subremote dentatis 
acutis ad }-pedalibus obovato-oblongis oblanceolatisve basi angustatis, 
superioribus minoribus lanceolatis semi-amplexicaulibus, costa subtus 
rominula, nervis obscuris, capitulis longe pedunculatis in corymbos 
axos aphyllos dispositis, pedunculis bracteis subulatis auctis, involucri 
2 poll. longi cylindracei basi obscure calyculati bracteis linearibus obtusis 
herbaceis, receptacnlo plano leevi, fl. radii 8-12 ligulis 3 poll. longis lineari- 
oblongis apice obtusis obscure crenatis aureis, styH ramis fuscis, fl. disci 
numerosis involucro paullo longioribus aureis, achzeniis puberulis, pappi 
albi setis scaberulis. 
S. magnificus, F’. Muell. in Linnea, vol. xxv. (1852) p.418; Key Syst. Vict. Pl. 
vol. i. p. 340. Sonder in Linnzea, l.c. p. 526. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iii. 
p- 666. 
Though hardly meriting the grandiose specific name 
given to this plant by the late Baron Mueller, it is a very 
conspicuous member of the enormous genus of groundsels, 
and in this respect heads the list of the twenty-eight 
Australian species. It is a mountain plant, native of the 
Grampians in Victoria, and of the Flinder’s ‘Range in 
South Australia. Seeds of it were received at the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, in 1899, from Mr. Maiden, F.L.S., Director 
of the Botanic Gardens of Sidney, from which plants were 
raised which flowered in the Temperate House in October, 
1900. 3 
Descr.—A tall, stout, quite glabrous, glaucous, erect, 
sparingly branched under-shrub, stem and branches terete, 
leafy. Leaves rather coriaceous, coarsely sub-crenately 
toothed, lower about six inches long, oblong-lanceolate or 
oblanceolate, narrowed at the base; upper smaller, lan- 
ceolate, semi-amp'exicaul, costa thickened beneath, nerves 
obscure. Heads in loose, peduncled, leafless corymbs ; 
pedicels slender, bearing scattered subulate bracts. Jn 
volucre half an inch long, cylindric, green, base obscurely 
ealyculate ; involucral bracts linear, obtuse, herbaceous, 
NoveMBeER Ist, 1901. 
