Tas. 6713. 
SENECIO concoror. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. ComposiT“.—Tribe SENECIONIDEX. 
Genus Sznxcio, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. J: Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 446.) 
SENECIO concolor ; herbaceus, glaber v. sparse pubescens, radice perennante, caule 
gracili superne ramoso angulato, foliis radicalibus caulinisque inferioribus 
anguste oblanceolatis obtusis in petiolum angustatis subtus purpurascentibus 
integerrimis v. sinuato-dentatis, superioribus sessilibus linearibus obtusis, 
supremis ad dichotomias a basi lata lanceolatis acuminatis argute dentatis, 
corymbis glanduloso-pubescentibus, pedicellis elongatis divaricatis, capitulis 
radiatis 1 unc. latis, involucro subhemispherico pauci-calyculato glanduloso, 
bracteis anguste linearibus acuminatis, fl. radii 10-12 ligula oblonga obtusa 
purpurea, fl. disci albis antheris purpureis, acheniis puberulis. 
8. concolor, DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p- 407, excel. var. 8; Harv. et Sond. Fil. Cap. 
vol. iil. p. 363, in part; N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. xii. part 1, 
p- 615 (sub S. speciosus), et vol. xx. p. 75. 
This is a handsome South African species of Senecio 
belonging to the group which includes 8. speciosus (Plate 
6488). In Harvey and Sonder’s “ Flora Capensis,’’ these 
two plants were confounded together, an error which 
was detected by Mr. N. E. Brown, who well describes 
the differences between them in the volumes of the 
_“Gardener’s Chronicle” quoted above. At first sight they 
reach the gorgeous S. pulcher (Plate 5959) of Temperate 
South America, but that species differs widely in its yellow 
_ disk-flowers, those of 8. concolor being white with purple 
anthers, a fact which would militate against the adoption 
of the specific name, were it not that the said colour of the 
anthers being that of the rays just sufficiently justifies its 
retention. 
S. concolor is a native of the mountainous district of 
_ Tulbaghe to the north-east of Capetown, where it was disco- 
vered by the collector Dregé about fifty years ago ; and it has 
Since been found by T. Cooper, when collecting for the late 
Mr. Wilson Saunders. The specimen was raised from 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1883. 
