specimen of 8. tanguticus, and it was Dr. Henry himself, 

 as I am informed by Mr. Hemsley, who first recognized 

 the identity of the two. 



Mr. Wilson, collector for Messrs. James Yeitch & Sons, 

 subsequently sent home seed of this handsome herbaceous 

 plant, and our plate was prepared from successfully 

 cultivated examples raised at Coombe Wood in 1902. 

 Judging from the vigorous plant, between six and seven 

 feet high, sent to Kew by Messrs. Veitch, 8. tanguticus is 

 a very striking object, suitable both for mixed planting 

 and grouping. 



It may be added that since the publication of Forbes' 

 and Hemsley's Enumeration of the Chinese Composite 

 (" Journal of the Linnsean Society," vol. xxiii.) in 1888, 

 the number of known Chinese species of Senecio has been 

 raised from sixty-three to nearly 150. Many of them are 

 very pretty, and some of a highly ornamental character. 



Descr. — A tall, stout, glabrous or glabrescent, leafy 

 herb, six to seven feet high, branching upwards. Stem 

 as thick as the thumb below, terete, green ; branches 

 erect. Leaves five to seven inches broad and long, lower 

 long-petioled, broadly ovate or deltoid, pinnatifidly lobed 

 or sub-pinnatifid, lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 acutely, rather distantly coarsely irregularly serrate, dark 

 green above, paler beneath, base truncate or broadly 

 sub-cordate, sinus rounded ; petiole of lower leaves 

 very long, base dilated and semi-amplexicaul. Heads 

 in erect, very many-flowered, pyramidal panicles six 

 to seven inches long, terminating the branches; 

 bracts small, green, lanceolate; pedicels one-sixth of an 

 inch long. Involucre narrow, cylindric, one-third of an 

 inch long, calyculate with short, subulate bracts at the 

 base; bracts three or four, linear, tips rounded. Ray. 

 flowers | three or four, rarely absent; ligule half an inch 

 long, linear, three-toothed, four- to five-nerved, golden- 

 yellow. Disk-fioivers three or four, lobes revolute. Anthers 

 linear, exserted, pale brown ; style-arms revolute. Pappus 

 copious, soft, white. Achene short, glabrous.-— J". D. H 



rtfiikJl^H ' I ra y; fl ° wer • 3 ' PW h^r ; 4, disk-flower ; 5, stamens ; 

 0, style-aims :— all enlarged; 7, reduced view of upper part of plant! 



