244. LXXVIII. COMPOSITA. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Senecio. 
CEYLON; Ambagamowa district, alt. 3-5000 ft., Macrae, Thwaites. 
The habit, foliage and inflorescence of this are entirely that of S. linifolius and 
the pappus is the same, but the achenes are very much smaller and pubescent, 
20. S. saxatilis, Wall. Cat. 3131 ; slender, pubescent, hirsute or glabrate, 
leaves sessile base auricled linear linear-oblong or elliptic-oblong acute or acumi- 
nate l-nerved serrate, heads few ebracteolate long peduncled subecorymbose, 
invol. bracts 15-20 4 in. long oblong lanceolate acuminate, ligules 8-12, achenes 
linear slender glabrous longer than the whitish or reddish pappus. DC. Prodr. 
vi. 367. S. Rabani and pilosiusculus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 202, 203. S. Wightii, 
Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 248; Clarke Comp. Ind. 197. Doronicum Wightii, DC. 
in Wight Contrib. 93; Prodr. vi. 322; Wight Ie. t. 1124. Madaractis glabra, 
DC. Prodr. vi. 440. M. Metziana, Schultz- Dip. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 1011. 
Kuasta Mrs. ; alt. 4 7000 ft. NirangnnY Mrs, ` in moist pastures; Wight, Ze, 
A much more variable plant than sS. linifolius, both as to foliage and hairiness, 
but always distinguishable from it by the auricled upper leaf-bases. Of the Khasian 
specimens, one form from river banks closely resembles linifolius in all other respects; 
another growing in drier places is very hispid and has broader leaves, both these have 
linear leaves 4-7 in. long and 3-4 in. broad; a third very slender hispid form has 
short elliptic-lanceolate acute leaves, the lower only 1} in. long contracted into an 
auricled petiole. The whole plant smells of sweetbriar when bruised. Of the 
Nilgherry specimens the two most divergent forms are a tall stout coarse glabrous 
one 2-3 ft. high, much corymbosely branched above, with petioled toothed elliptie- 
lanceolate lower leaves and coarsely-toothed cauline leaves with broad auricled bases ; 
and a more slender simpler one, with all the leaves smaller and regularly erenate- 
toothed aud elliptie-laneeolate. Between these there are all intermediates, and each 
has subsidiary varieties which imitate the Khasian ones in greater or less degree. 
The pappus-hairs are all long and rather slender in this species. 
?21. S. Mishmi, Clarke Comp. Ind. 203 ; stem glabrous angular, leaves 
sessile with broad amplexicaul bases produced backwards broadly oblong acute 
glandular-pubescent on both surfaces denticulate or subentire, heads large 
almost glabrous in long angular bracteolate peduncles, invol. bracts 10-14 
narrowly oblong acute margins white, ligules long flat, achenes narrowly oblong 
5-angled glabrous much shorter than the slender white pappus. 
Upper Assam ; Mishmi hills, Griffith. 
I have seen no specimens of this, which is described from a fragment a foot long 
in the Calcutta Herbarium, and Mr. Clarke has no further information to give re- 
specting it ; its tailless anther-cells and epappose ray-fl. place it in this section. 
22. S. polycephalus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 197 ; herbaceous, pubescent 
hispid or scabrid, leaves all sessile obovate-oblong or linear or lanceolate regularly 
crenately serrate, lower 3—5-nerved upper with dilated auricled bases, heads few 
or many bracteolate long-peduncled corymbose, invol. bracts 10-15 ; in. long 
linear-oblong acuminate glabrous or pubescent, ligules 8-10, achenes linear 
glabrous or scabrid nearly equalling the red appus. Madaractis polycephala, 
DC. Prodr. vi. 440. Doronicum Arnottii, be in Wight Contrib. 28 ; vers 
l. c. 822; Wight Ic. t. 1125. 
NirankRRY Mrs. ; alt. 6-7500 ft., on the northern slopes, Wight, Se, 
A coarse herb 10-18 in., often branched corymbosely from the very base, with 
stout branches and thickish leaves, very brown when dry, Leaves 1-3 in., usually 
regularly crenate-toothed with rather thickened margins.  Ligules very broadly 
oblong, equalling the invol. bracts. Achenes slender, often A in. long, from quite 
glabrous to very seabrid, as in Wight’s figure, 
23. S. Lessingianus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 198; herbaceous, hispidly 
pubescent, leaves all sessile and auricled linear-oblong deeply acutely serrate or 
