Tab. 6363. 



SENECIO SUBSCANDENS. 

 Native of Tropical Africa. 



Nat. Ord. Composite. — Tribe Senecionide/E. 

 Genus Senecio, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Oen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 446). 



Senecio subscandens ; herbaceus, alte scandens, glaberimus, ramulis elongatia 

 pendulis cylindraceis foliosis, foliis ovato-oblongis longe petiolatis pinnati- 

 partitis 3-8-pollicaribus, petiolo basi auriculato, lobis utrinque 2-5 distan- 

 tibus orbiculato-ovatis basi lata superne et inferne decurrentibus grosse 

 sinuato-dentatis, terminali subdeltoideo basi profunde cordato, capitulis 

 in cyraas ramosas rotundatas longe gracile pedunculatas dispositis rotundatis, 

 capitulis i-pollicaribus angustis breviter gracile pedicellatis, involucri basi 

 pauci-braeteolati bracteis 5 lineari-lanceolatis, floribus 10-12 tubulosis flavis, 

 acheniis costatis setulosis. 



S. subscandens, Hochst in Herb. Schimper. Abyss, iii. n. 1926 ; A. Rich. Flor. 

 Abyss, vol. i. p. 434 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. iii. p. 421. 



A very fine hothouse climber, which has been for many 

 years cultivated in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens, to 

 which it was presented by the late Dr. Welwitsch. It was first 

 described from Abyssinian specimens, but it has also been 

 found by Meller during Livingstone's Zambesi expedition, 

 near the Murchison falls. It belongs to a small scandent 

 section of the genus of which there are several tropical 

 African and South African species. In the Palm House it 

 forms a rambling herbaceous climber, trained up one of the 

 iron girders, and flowering freely in January. 



Descr. A tall climber, but not twining ; stem and branches 

 cylindric, succulent, green, with linear blotches. Leaves 

 five to nine inches long and two to four inches broad across 

 the lobes, long-petioled, the petiole rather slender, coloured 

 like the stem, with two small broad auricles at the base, 

 which are semi-amplexicaul ; lobes two to six pair, and 

 a terminal one ; lateral lobes rounded ovate or trapezoid or 

 almost orbicular, distant, adnate, with their bases prolonged 

 both up and down the rachis, very coarsely sinuate-toothed, 

 the teeth irregular, acute, quite entire, dark green, with 



MAY 1st, 1878. 



