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Tas. 6099. 
SENECIO (Kiernra) ANTEUPHORBIUM. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Compositam.—Tribe SENECIONIDEA. 
Genus Senecio, Z. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. p. 446). 
SENEctO (Kleinia) Anteuphorbium; glaberrimus, carnosus, erectus, ramosus, 
caule crasso cylindraceo ad nodos coustricto, foliis pollicaribus sparsis 
erectis oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtusis acutisve integerrimis carnosis, - 
petiolo brevissimo secus caulem linea triplici deducto, capitulis polli- 
caribus crasse pedunculatis solitariis erectis, bracteis sparsis anguste 
linearibus, involucri squamis anguste linearibus acutis numerosis, flori- 
bus omnibus tubulosis flavis, pappi setis tenuissimis, acheniis levibus, 
styli ramis apice acutis, 
Kiemia Anteuphorbium, DC. Prodr., vol. vi. p. 838; Harv. et Sond. Fl. 
Cap., vol. iii. p. 319. 
Cacatta Anteuphorbium, Linn. Sp. Pl., p. 1168; Willd. Sp. Pl., vol. iii. 
p. 1725; Ait. Hort. Kew., vol. iv. p. 497. 
AnteupHorsitm Bawh. Pinax, 887; Dod. Pempt., 3, lib.ii. p. 378; Lob. 
Ie., vol. ii. p. 26 ; Moris Hist., vol. iii, p. 845; Dill. Hort. Elth., p. 63, 
t. 55, f. 2, 3. 
The subject of the present plate is one of the oldest Cape 
plants in cultivation, having, according to Dodonzus, been 
brought to Europe in 1570, and cultivated in England in 
Gerard’s garden in 1596. Nevertheless, its recent South 
African habitat is up to this date unknown, no accurate 
description of it has hitherto appeared, and it has been but 
once seen in flower in Europe, until I received the 
specimen from which the accompanying drawing was made 
im January last from Mr. Thomas Hanbury’s garden at 
Palazzo Orengo, near Mentone. Dillenius indeed, so early as 
1732, points out the rarity of its flowering, adding that, 
as his work “The Hortus Elthamensis,” was passing through 
the press, he received a flowering specimen from a Mr. 
Owers, gardener to Mr. Blaithwaits, at Dirham in 
Gloucestershire, and which specimen he figures, though very 
Wretchedly, for it appears to have been quite withered. 
MAY Ist, 1874. 
