Senecio. ] LXXVII. ooMPosmE. (J. D. Hooker.) 345 
toothed, heads 2-1 in. diam. many-fld. turbinate long-peduncled bracteolate, 
. invol. bracts 10-15 1 in. long linear-oblong acuminate hispid, ligules 8-10 very 
broad, achenes linear scabrid equalling the red pappus. Doronicum Lessingi- 
anum, Wight § Arn. in Arn. Pugill. 106; DC. Prodr. vi. 322; Wight Ic. t. 
1126. Madaractis scabra, DC. l. c. 499. 
Nivcuerry Mrs. ; alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight, &c. 
Closely allied to S. polycephalus and as coarse, always hispid, with more numerous 
more reniform leaves which are very deeply toothed. 
** Leaves not white and cottony beneath, pinnatifid. 
24. S. ludens, Clarke Comp. Ind. 199 ; herbaceous, hirsute puberulous 
scaberulous or glabrate, stem strict or slender, leaves polymorphous simple or 
more often lyrate-pinnatifid with broadly auricled bases or petioles, terminal 
lobe ovate or orbicular-ovate or -cordate lobulate and toothed lateral small 
gashed or 0, heads ecalyculate irregularly corymbose on stout or slender ped- 
uncles, invol. bracts 12-16 4 in. long linear-oblong acuminate usually glabrous, 
ligules 8-10 broadly oblong, achenes quite or nearly glabrous or hispid slender 
equalling the dirty-white pappus. Doronicum Walkeri, Arn. Pugill. 32; DC. 
Prodr. vi. 922 ; Thwaites Enum. 167. 
The Concan; Bababoodan and Wattikely hills, alt. 5000 ft., Law, Ee, CEYLON ; 
-central province, alt. 5—7000 ft., Walker, &c. 
A most sportive plant ; some of the Conean specimens are very stout, a foot high 
with a much branched stem as thick below as the little finger and leaves with the 
terminal lobe 24 in. diam. ; others have flexuous leafy unbranched stems with long 
petioled leaves reduced to the terminal lobe, others have oblong leaves 4-5 by 1 in., 
uniformly pinnatifid with oblong ascending toothed lobes. The Ceylon forms are 
often as stout, but more often slender, less branched and less leafy than the Concan 
ones, with sometimes a very few small elliptic petioled toothed leaves à-1 in. long, 
without auricled bases, and the stem produced into a very slender forked scape bear- 
ing 2-4 subcorymbose heads, on filiform peduncles, A very singular small apparently 
prostrate Ceylon form, probably growing in water, has slender stems emitting long 
roots, and rather recurved rhomboid petioled toothed leaves 1-3 in. long, and single 
or but few heads. The achenes are rarely as described by Clarke villously hairy; I 
can sometimes detect only minute hairs, at others short spreading ones, and at others 
none at all; they are about 4. in. long and contracted below the top. Clarke’s name 
is a very applicable one, but that of Walkeri should have been retained. 
25. S. Hohenackeri, Hook. f.; glabrous puberulous or scabrid, stem 
woody very stout and much branched below, branches short ascending herbaceous 
above leafy, petiole not auricled, leaves small deeply pinnatifid segments few 
short acute toothed or lobed margins recurved, heads long-peduncled bracteo- 
late, invol. bracts 10-15 2 in. long lanceolate acuminate rigid glabrous or sca- 
brid, ligules 6-10, achenes slender more or less scabrid nearly equalling the red 
ppus. S. pinnatifidus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 198. Madaractis pinnatifida, DC. 
odr. vi. 439. Doronicum Candolleanum, Wight § Arn. in Arn. Pugill. 108 ; 
DC. Prodr. vi. 322; Wight Ic. t. 1127. D. rupestre, Wight Ic. t. 1128. 
NILGHERRY and Suevacuerry Mrs.; alt. 7-8000 ft., Wight, Ee, in pastures. 
Root and stout branched stock as thick as the little finger; branches rather 
slender very many 3-6 in. Leaves l-l in.; petiole short, slender or 0. <Achenes 
ig in.; pappus hairs all long or with a few short ones. 
26. S. tenuifolius, Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 60, f. 4; annual, slender, herba- 
-ceous, glabrous, much branched, leaves sessile pinnatifid or sub-2-pinnatifid, 
lobes very slender spreading obtuse, heads few long-peduncled ebracteolate in 
-divaricating corymbs, invol. bracts 10-12 4 in. long obovate-oblong acute mem- 
branous glabrous, ligules 6-10, achenes broader upwards scabrid equalling the 
