348 LXXVIII, coMPosms. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Senecio. 
33. S. belgaumensis, Clarke Comp. Ind. 200; erect, much branched, 
branches slender glabrous or pubescent, leaves rhombic-ovate narrowed into a 
broad auricled petiole acute coarsely toothed or gashed white and cottony 
beneath except the nerves, heads ecalyculate on long capillary loosely irregularly 
corymbose peduncles, invol. bracts 12-18 j^ in. long obovate-oblong acuminate 
ubescent, EN 8-10, achenes turbinate ribbed scabrid epappose. Madacarpus 
Eu. Wight in Cale, Journ. Nat, Hist. vii, 1507; Ic. t. 1152; Dalz. A 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 180. ? Doronicum reticulatum, Dalz. & Gibs. I. c. 
The Deccan; Belgaum, Law, Dalzell, colouring the walls of the fort (at Jilwan ?) 
yellow, Ritchie. 
So similar to S. Grahami in habit and foliage that Clarke (Comp. Ind.) suggests 
its being an epappose state of that plant, which suggestion, he informs me, he with- 
draws in favour of its nearer affinity to S. Edgeworthii, From Grahami, it differs 
chiefly in the much smaller involucral bracts, only d. in. long, and more capillary 
peduncles, as well as the absence of pappus, and from the Concan and Nilgherry form 
of S. Edgeworthii it differs in being apparently annual, in its slender habit, in the 
shape texture and clothing of the undersurface of the leaves, in the mnch smaller 
invol. braets without broad membranous margins, and in the shorter more turbinate 
achenes ; but it approaches more Edgeworth's very imperfect specimen from Mandu. 
Some of Dalzell’s specimens of S. belgaumensis with a tall erect stem 4-6 ft. high, 
furnished throughout with short spreading branches bearing lax corymbose heads, 
differ wholly in habit from the genus. In Dalzell and Gibson's Flora Doronicum 
reticulatum (S. Grahami, nob.), is described as having no pappus, which obliges me to 
quote it under this species, but I suspect this is a blunder, specimens from the habitat 
ascribed to their D. reticulatum, “Island of Caranjah” (in Bombay harbour) would 
clear up this point. 
Sect. IV. Ligularia. Perennial herbs with long petioled very broad 
orbicular reniform or palmate radical leaves, and cauline leaves with large 
sheaths. Heads large, nodding or deflexed, racemose or corymbose ; invol. 
bracts l-seriate in insertion, of two forms, the narrower outer overlapping both 
margins of the broader inner. Achenes glabrous, usually equalling or exceeding 
the pappus, all pappose. The Indian species are all Himalayan with one 
Khasian (see also genus Cremanthodium), 
* Leaves not palmately lobed; heads many, corymbose or in corymbose 
racemes. 
24. S. amplexicaulis, Wall. Cat. 3139 ; very robust, nearly glabrous, 
leaves orbicular-reniform cordate or subhastate toothed, petiole of lower long 
simple or interruptedly winged, of upper with a broad sheathing wing, heads 
many-fld. corymbose or in corymbose racemes base broad, invol. bracts about 
8 connate below oblong acute glabrous, ligules 5-6 very long, achenes narrow 
shorter than the rufous pappus. Clarke Comp. Ind. 204. S. Yakla, Clarke l. c. 
Ligularia amplexicaulis and corymbosa, DC. Prodr. vi. 314. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA ; alt. 9-13,000 ft., from Kashmir to Garwhal. Srkxrw ; at 
Yakla, alt. 16,000 ft., Clarke. 
Stem 2-4 ft., as thick as the thumb below. Leaves 1 ft. diam. and less, teeth 
regular and alternately smaller. Heads drooping, campanulate, corymbose in flower, 
racemed after flowering, branches of corymb pubescent; invol. bracts 4—4 in. ; ligules 
1-1 in. slender; disk-fl. with slender tube longer than the short campanulate limb. 
Achenes 1 in. long, glabrous.— The Sikkim specimens are smaller than the N. Western 
and the disk corollas have a much shorter tube in proportion to the limb. 
35. S. Thomsoni, Clarke Comp. Ind. 205; robust, glabrous below, 
above glabrous or cottony, leaves orbicular hastate or cordate toothed, petiole 
of lower not winged slender, heads 5—6-fld. corymbose or in subpanicled corymbs 
