"308 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) [ Cineraria. 
* Stem herbaceous ; corymb lax or panicled: 
Leaves amply auricled at base ... (7) erodioides. 
Leaves minutely auricled at base... (9) alchemilloides. 
Pubescence hairy, not woolly or canous’_... (10) geifolia. 
Stem and leaves quite glabrous : 
Achenes hispid on surface ; ciliate at margin : 
Heads radiate : 
Suffrutices ; leaves reniform or fanshaped. 
Lvs. cordate-based ; pedunc. corymbose (11) lobata. 
Lys. cuneate-based ; pedunc. subsimple (12) Saxifraga. 
Herbaceous; lvs. broadly hastate, sharply cut (16) decipiens. 
Herb. (annual); lvs. lyrato-pinnatisect ... (17) platycarpa. 
Herb.; lvs. oblong-lanceolate, toothed; rays 
EDU Wee ee AIO) proglogsa. 
Heads discoid, homogamous : 
Heads corymbose ; inv. scales appendiculate (20) Dregeana. 
Heads on simple pedune. ; lower leaves ovate, 
tapering at base; upper oblong-linear ... (21) exilis. 
Achenes quite glabrous, not ciliate, wing-margined : 
Leaves reniform or lyrato-pinnatisect : 
Perennial; Ivs. reniform, on long petioles, 
the upper sometimes sub-lyrate... ... ... (13) geraniifolia. 
Annual ; leaves lyrato-pinnati-partite, short- 
petioled, much cut and narrow... ... ... (18) lyrata. 
Leaves hastate or deltoid, long-petioled : 
Lys. deltoid, repand, amply auricled.at base (14) deltoidea, 
Lvs. hastate, sharply cut, with narrow auricles (15) atriplicifolia. 
III. Ornonnomes. Achenes obovate, subcompressed, densely clothed with short, 
rufous hairs ; the disc-achenes often abortive, but with perfect, bifid, cone-tipped 
styles. Leaves pinnati-partite. FI. branches pedunculoid, one-headed. (Sp. 22.) 
Annual ; cobwebby, subglabrous ; leaf-lobes linear... ... (22) othonnoides. 
§ 1. Senectompes. (Sp. 1.) 
1, C. tomentosa (Less. Syn. 391); stem robust, herbaceous, erect, 
simple, below densely white-woolly, glabrate above ; leaves sessile, 
half-clasping, cobwebby, becoming glabrous above, densely white-woolly 
beneath, the lower obovate, acute, calloso-serrate, with reflexed margins, 
the upper narrower and smaller, more oblong or linear; corymb loosely 
branched, few-headed ; inv. glabrous, scales numerous, linear-acuminate ; 
rays several; achenes glabrous, broadly 3- (rarely 4)- winged. DC. 
lc. 308. Senecio lanatus, Thunb. Cap. 681. 
Has. French Hoek, Thunberg. Worcester, Ecklon. Drackensteinberg, Drege! 
Tulbagh, Zey.! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd., C.) 
1-2 feet high, with the habit of Senecio verbascifolius ; quite unlike any other 
Cineraria. Lower leaves 14-24 inches long, 4-1 inch wide, very white beneath ; 
upper leaves gradually smaller, diminishing to mere bracts. 
§ 2. Ev-Crveraria. (Sp. 2-21.) 
2. C. pedunculosa (DC.! 1. c. 305); stem suffruticose at base, erect, 
short, closely branched, the branches ending in long, scaly, loosely 
woolly, one-headed peduncles ; leaves petioled, lyrato-pinnatifid, the 
woolly petiole not auricled at base, the lateral lobes in 1-3 pair, short, 
cuneate, bluntly toothed, the terminal 3—5-lobed, roundish or oblong 
(not cordate at base), more or less deeply 3~5-lobed, the lobes toothed, 
glabrate above, woolly beneath; inv. glabrescent, of 12-14 scales ; 
rays 12-14; achenes (young) compressed, hispid and ciliate. 
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