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Senecio. | LXXVIII. compositz. (J.D. Hooker) 341 
loose open corymbs, invol. bracts 16-20 linear-oblong 1-3-nerved suddenly 
ending in long points, ligules 16-20, achenes strongly ribbed glabrous all with 
white pappus. S. gracilis, Arn. Pugil. 31. 
Travancore; Pulney Mts, Wight. Ceyron; elevated districts amongst high 
grass, alt. 7000 ft. 
Root woody. Stem 1-2 ft., terete. Leaves lower 4-6 by 1-1 in. rather thick, 
l-nerved. Peduncles of heads erect, very slender, with setaceous bracts; limb of 
disk-fl. campanulate. Achenes slender, almost black, most minutely scabrid. 
9. S. nilgheryanus, DC. in Wight Contrib. 23; Prodr. vi. 363; 
glabrous pubescent or sparsely cottony, stem strongly ribbed and angled leafy, 
lower leaves oblanceolate obtuse or 0, cauline sessile linear-oblong from a narrow 
or dilated auricled base margins flat or recurved toothed or sinuately-pinnatifid 
]-nerved, heads not numerous 1-3 in. diam. 30-40-fld. bracteolate campanulate 
very long peduncled in very loose open corymbs, invol. bracts 30-40 oblong 
subacute, ligules 10-15, achenes most minutely scabrid all with white pappus. 
Wight Ic. t. 1132 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 198. 5. Arnottianus, DC. l.c. 357. 
Nivcuerry Mrs.; alt. 7-8000 ft., Wight, &c. 
Green or white with cottony pubescence. Stem 12-18 in., stout or slender. 
Leaves 3-5 in., very variable in width and in depth of cutting, sometimes rigid, 
scaberulous above.— Specimens from “about Avalanche” (MeIvor) have densely 
crowded leaves, grey above and quite white beneath, as are the stems and corymbs, 
but not the involucre, limb of disk-fl. eampanulate. Achenes as in zeylanicus. 
** Perennials, with a woody rootstock or branches. Disk-fl. with campanu- 
late or funnel-shaped limb. Leaves narrow. 
10. S. Griffithii, Hook.f. E Thoms. ; glabrous or pubescent, stem slender 
woody erect simple densely leafy below, leaves elongate crowded very narrow 
linear acute margins revolute upper shorter, heads 1-3 long peduncled j-1 in. 
diam. many-fld. bracteolate, invol. bracts 12-18 linear-oblong acute l-nerved, 
ligules 8-14, achenes papillose or seabrid all with white or yellowish pappus. 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 194. 
Kuasia Mrs., ; alt. 5-7000 ft., Griffith, &c. 
Stem 6-12 in. erect, or ascending from a woody stock, rarely forked. Leaves 
1-23 by 4-4 in. rarely dilated a little upwards, glabrous above, margins almost 
meeting beneath at the prominent midrib. Peduncles continuations of the stem, with 
scattered, small, erect, subulate leaves; ligules longer than the invol. bracts, bright 
yellow ; disk-fl. with a narrow funnel-shaped limb. 
ll. S. Kurzii, Clarke mss. ; dwarf, pubescent, rootstock and numerous 
stout short leafy branches woody, leaves crowded spreading and recurved linear 
obtuse or apiculate scaberulous, margins recurved, heads } in. diam. solitary 
terminal many-fld. with 15-20 long linear-oblong acute nearly glabrous brac- 
teoles, ligules 15-20, achenes scabrid all with white pappus. Š, Griffithii, var. 
Kurzii, Clarke Comp. Ind. 194. 
aper: granite rocks on the top of Moolee, Parish; and of Thoung-gyun, 
Lobb. 
A singular little almost shrubby rigid species, 2-5 in. high. Leaves 4-13 in. long. 
Bracteoles half as long as the involuere and more, very slender. 
*** Annuals. Disk-fl. very slender. Leaves pinnatifid in all or entire in 
S. dubius. 
19. S. coronopifolius, Desf.; Boiss Fl. Orient. ii. 390; annual, 
glabrous, slender, often much branched, leaves all cauline rather small and 
fleshy narrow pinnatifid, lower petioled, upper amplexicaul and auricled, heads 
few à in. diam. many fld. long peduncled minutely bracteolate in lax corymbs, 
invol. bracts 15-20 narrow acute, ligules 8-12 revolute, disk corollas very slender, 
