Tas. 7239, 
SENECIO (Kternta) cGaxprnt. 
Nat. Ord. Composira.—Tribe SzNECIONIDER. 
Genus Senecio, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 446.) 
Senecio (Kleinia) Galpini; subfrutex erectus, carnosus, glaucus, caule 
ramisque teretibus, foliis oblanceolatis acutis integerrimis basi angus- 
tata semiamplexicauli, capitulis magnis homogamis basi foliis linearibus 
lanceolatisve dissitis involucro brevioribus cinctis, involucri teretiusculi 
bracteis ad 10apicibus liberisacutis erectis, floribuslate saturate aurantiacis 
longe exsertis hemisphzrium involucro duplo latiorem efficientibus, corolle 
tubo lobis linearibus obtusis dorso sub apice gibbis duplo longiore, styli 
ramis elongatis appendicula oblonga terminatis, acheniis striatis, 
S. Galpini, Hook. f. in Journ. of Horticulture, 1892, p. 3. 
In a horticultural point of view the suppression of the 
genus Kleinia of Haworth may be regrettable, but in a 
botanical it has no claims upon recognition other than that 
of afar from well defined section of the vast horde of 
plants included under Senecio. Bentham indeed says 
(Gen. Plant. 11. 450) that the Kleinias with a short broad 
appendage to the style arms, show a transition to Notonia, 
DC. a genus only distinguished from Senecio by this 
character and the homogamous discoid head. Under this 
definition S. Galpini is clearly a Notonia, where I should 
probably be compelled to place it had I under review a 
critical investigation of Senecionidex, and been obliged to 
retain that genus. There is this, however, to be considered, 
that the Notonias are Indian, and not succulent, and the 
Kleinias all succulent and African. Bentham indeed 
says, under Notonia, that it is hardly separable from the 
section Kleinia of Senecio, and should perhaps either form a 
section of that genus with those Kleinias that have similar 
style arms, or a genus apart, but closely allied. He adds, 
however, as a further distinction, that the corollas of 
Notonia are yellow, but of most species of Kleinia white, 
which again places 8S. Galpini in Notonia together with 
S. fulgens. 
JuNE Ist, 1892. 
