338 LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Senecio. 
small bracts.—-This has more the habit of a Senecio than of a Notonia, but the styles 
are characteristic of the latter genus. Thwaites deseribes the flowers as pale yellow 
in Ceylon, and Wight as white in the Nilgherries. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
N. crassissima, DC. Prodr. vi. 442; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc, 1877, ii. 194 (Cacalia 
erassissima, Wall. Cat. 3155); Wallich’s specimen of this (from the Segaen hills, Ava) 
has no flowers, and the branches and leaves do not differ from those of N. grandiflora. 
Kurz, who keeps it up, gives Wallich’s habitat, and quotes Griffith's Je, Pl. Asiat. t. 
470, as the same plant; but that figure is utterly unlike any known plant. So many 
Deccan plants are Avan, that this is probably N. grandiflora. 
70. SENECIO, Linn. 
Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs. Leaves radical or alternate, entire or 
variously divided. Heads solitary corymbose or racemose, heterogamous 
(rarely homogamous) usually yellow ` ray-fl. 9 , fertile, ligulate (or 0); disk-fl. 
ğ , fertile, tubular, 5-fid. Znvolucre various, bracts 1 or sub-2-seriate, equal, 
erect, free or connate at the base, with few or many very short outer ones (heads 
bracteolate) ; receptacle flat or convex, naked, pitted or fimbrillate. Anther-bases 
obtuse, or Aire or minutely tailed. Style-arms of Y recurved, tips truncate 
and penicillate, rarely rounded or with a short narrow point. -Achenes subterete 
or outer dorsally compressed, 5—-10-ribbed ; pappus-hairs copious or sparse, soft, 
white, smooth, scabrid or barbellate.— DrsrRIB. About 900 species, chiefly in 
temperate climates and mountains of the tropics. 
I have refrained from regarding various Indian species of the section Jacobea as 
forms or varieties of North Asiatic and European, the limits of these being so badly 
defined that a study of the whole genus would be necessary to do so with confidence ; 
of the other sections the species are certainly almost all South Asiatic. Amongst the 
Indian anomalous species are those of the group of Madaractis, bitherto referred to 
Doronicum, whose pappus is usually red and rigid ; amongst these the most remarkable 
are S. Grahami with paleaceous pappus, and S. belgawmensis with none at all. The 
many-seriate, imbricating, involucral bracts of S. /lavandulefolius in its ordinary 
state are altogether unlike those of the genus, and the species is referable to Senecio 
only on the(tenable) hypothesis of the bracteoles being very numerous and appressed 
to the involueral bracts. 
SERIES A. Anther-cells obtuse at the base, not produced downwards into j 
tails. 
Secr. I. Jacobæa. Erect herbs. Heads usually campanulate; invol. 
bracts l-seriate, subequal ; ligules usually conspicuous, rarely minute, 0 in 15. 
dubius. Achenes all pappose (except forms of 2. chrysanthemoides and 5. diversi- 
fol'us) ` pappus longer than the achenes, of soft white (rarely red) equal hairs. 
* Annuals or biennials. — Disk.-fl. with a funnel-shaped or campanulate limb. 
Leaves broad or narrow, entire toothed or lyrate-pinnatifid. 
l. S. graciliflorus, DC. Prodr, vi. 365; glabrous, erect, stem flexuous 
terete or nearly so, leaves large petioled pinnatifid, lobes 6-8 pair ovate- or 
oblong-lanceolate acuminate coarsely unequally serrate, petiole not auricled, 
heads j in. many narrow bracteolate 5—8-fld. in much branched corymbs or 
panicles, invol. bracts 5-7 linear obtuse glabrous, ligules 3-5, achenes ribbed 
glabrous all pappose. Clarke Comp. Ind. 189. S. Royleanus, DC. Le 367. 
S. tanacetoides, Kunth § Bouché Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1845, 12. Oacalia 
graciliflora, Wall. Cat. 3149. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 8-13,000 ft. 
Stem 2-6 ft., sometimes angled and grooved. Leaves 4-6 by 2-4 in., membranous, 
