Tas. 8624. 
SENECIO GLastTIFOoLivs. 
South Africa. 
_ Composirar. Tribe SENECIONIDEAE. 
Senecio, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 446. 
Senecio glastifolius, Linn. f. Suppl. 872 (1781); Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 
'  p. 681; DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 408; Harv. in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap, 
vol. iii. p. 890; Gard. Chron. 1910, vol. xlviii. p. 48 cum icon.; affinis 
_ 8S. multibracteato, Harv., sed foliis non scabridis pedunculis parce bracteo- 
latis differt. 
Herba gracilis, alta; caulis superne ramosus, sulcatus, viridis, glaber. Folia 
'  linearia, apice subacuta, basi leviter decurrentia, usque ad 8 cm. longa, 
0°5-1 cm. lata, remote denticulata, tenuiter chartacea, glabra vel subtus 
minutissime puberula, utrinque viridia. Capitula pauca, laxe corymbosa, 
5°5-6 cm. diametro; pedunculi graciles, parce bracteati, usque ad 10 cm. 
longi. Involwerwm campanulatum, circiter 1 cm. longum; bracteae 
subtriseriatae, exterioribus ceteris circiter dimidio brevioribus, lineares, 
apice nigrae, subacutae, glabrae, marginibus anguste membranaceis. 
Flores radit plerumque 13, roseo-lilacini; corollae tubus gracilis, 5 mm, 
longus, glaber, lamina lineari-oblonga, apice tridentata, 2-2-5 em. longa, 
5-7 mm. lata, nervosa. lores disci lutescentes; corollae tubus superne 
leviter ampliatus, 7 mm. longus, glaber; antherae leviter exsertae; 
achaenia oblonga, 1:5 mm. longa, minutissime puberula; pappi setae 
sericeae, corollis aequales, albae.—J. Hurcuinson. 
The Senecio which forms the subject of our illustration 
is a native of South Africa, where it is known to occur 
throughout the coast region from the district of Rivers- 
dale as far as Algoa Bay. There are one or two earlier 
but doubtful records which connect the species with the 
Table Mountain region, but there is no definite proof of 
its presence there now. The late Dr. Harvey included 
S. glastifolius in the group of species of a shrubby or 
almost shrubby character which he designated the 
figidi. At the same time there is no doubt that it is 
extremely closely allied to another species from the same 
general region, S. multibracteatus, Harv., which has been 
referred by its author to the group Annuwi recognised by 
him. From S. glastifolius it is very easy to distinguish 
S. multibracteatus owing to the scabrid leaves and more 
Aveustr, 1915. 
