PAs. 7892; 
SENECIO SAGITTIFOLIUS. 
Native of Uruguay. 
Nat. Ord. Comrosirz.—Tribe SENECIONIDER, 
Genus Sevecio, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 446.) 
SEnxcto (Jacobea) sagittifolius ; giganteus, herbaceus, elatus, robustus, biennis, 
araneosus, caule simplici erecto, foliis radicalibus maximis ovato-cordato- 
v. saggittato-lanceolatis acutis crenato-dentatis undulatis in petiolum late 
alatum ala pinnati-lobata angustatis, costa infra medium superne alte 
bialata alis dentatis, foliis superioribus sessilibus e basi rotundata lan- 
ceolatis integerrimis, corymbo maximo ramis pedicellisque patentibus 
robustis, capitulis 14-2 poll. latis, involucri laxe lanati calyculati cylin- 
dracei bracteis 20-25 linearibus obtusis, ligulis radii 20-40 linearibus 
obtusis primulinis tubo triplo longioribus, disci aurei corollis breviter 
5-dentatis dentibus erectis, acheniis glabris, pappo non copioso albo. 
8. sagittifolius, Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. vi. pars. iii. p. 315. André 
in Rev. Hortié. (1892), p. 53, fig. 16,17. Masters in Gard. Chron. (1893), 
vol. i. pp. 355, 357, figs. 50, 51. 
Very variable as the groundsels are in habit and foliage, 
not one of its allies amongst the herbaceous species of 
that, vast genus is so remarkable in respect of stature and 
size of foliage as S. sagittifolius ; added to which the frills 
on the costa of the leaves above are, as far as | am aware, 
unique in the genus. Iam indebted to M. André for a re- 
production (introduced into our figure) of a photograph of 
the plant, which that gentleman exhibited at a meeting of 
the Societé Nationale d’Horticulture de France, and which, 
he informed me, represents a specimen eight feet in height. 
I have not been able to introduce a leaf of the natural size 
into the accompanying plate; but one produced at Kew 
measured nearly two feet in length, including the winged 
petiole ; the blade being one foot by eight inches broad at 
the base, and the corymb of flowers was of the latter 
breadth. According to the description in Martius’ “ Flora 
Brasiliensis,” it attains in its native country twelve feet in 
height. There is a graphic representation in the “‘ Revue 
-Horticole (1. c.) of a landscape in Uruguay with groups of 
Novemper Ist, 1893. 
