356 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [ Senecio. 
scaly; inv. naked at base or nearly so, glabrous, scales linear, acuminate, 
2-3 ribbed; rays several, revolute; achenes striate, puberulous, S.hetero- 
clinius, DC. 1, c. 380. 
Var. £8. heterophyllus ; lower leaves toothed; upper narrower, linear, subentire. 
S. heterophyllus, Th.! Cap. 679. DC.! l. c. 379. 
Has. Sandy, moist ground in the Western Districts. Thunberg! Cape Flats, and 
Stellenbosch, E.g 7./ Paarl, Drege! Berg R., Zeyher/ (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
Habit of S. littoreus, but the leaves are commonly much more deeply pinnatifid, 
(though varying much in this respect) and always known from that species by the 
absence of calyculus, or the mere 1-2 minute bracteoles in its place. Leaves 13-2 
inches long, the lobes 2-5 lines long, 2-4 lines wide. Panicle diffuse. 
7. S. consanguineus (DC. 1. c. 381); ‘herbaceous, erect, branched ; 
stem terete, minutely puberulous ; leaves glabrous, membranaceous, 
sessile, ear-clasping, pinnatipartite, the lobes on each side 5—6, oblong, 
obtuse, sinuate-toothed, some of the lower ones petioled, exauriculate ; 
corymb loosely few-headed ; pedicels long, nude; iny. nude at base, 
1o-leaved, scarcely puberulous, not torulose, equalling the disc; disc-fl. 
about 20, rays 5, minute, revolute; achenes terete, pubescent.” DC. l. c. 
Var. 8. major ; “larger and more hispid ; disc-fl. 30 ; rays 6-8.” DC... 
Has. Near Verleptpram, on the Gariep, both vars. (Var. 8.in Herb., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems in var. B. 1-1} feet, fistular, striate, minutely scaberulous. Leaves 1} inch 
long, subpetiolate, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes in several pairs, horizontal, oblong, 
sharply and unequally toothed or biserrate. Corymb rather close. Inv. scales 
sparsely hispid, flat. Achenes pubescent. I have not seen var. a. 
8. S. repandus (Thunb. Cap. 683); annual, weak, erect; stem erect, 
scaberulous, with spreading branches; lower and medial leaves on long 
petioles, auricled at base, thinly membranous, veiny, ovate or orbicular, 
coarsely toothed, or lyrato-pinnatifid with a large terminal lobe and few 
lateral lobes, the upper sessile, pinnatifid or entire ; inflorescence lax, 
the heads on long, slender pedicels; inv. nearly nude at base, the scales 
12-13, linear-lanceolate, shorter than the disc, acuminate, scabrous, 
brown-tipped ; rays 7-10, spreading ; achenes minutely downy. DOC. 
: c. oe Also S. membranifolius, DC./ l.c. and S. inconstans, DC.! 
en 02. 
Van. 8. erodiifolius ; dwarf, diffuse ; leaves commonly lyrate ; pedicels few. - 
eroditfolius, DC./ l. c. 381. Cineraria pumila, Thunb, Cap. p. 672. 
Has, At the Paarl, Thunberg, Drege/ Clanwilliam, Ecklon! Simonstown, C. 
Wright, 300 (inv. se. glabrate!) (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
3-12 inches high, very pale and tender. Leaves, with their petioles, 2-24 inches 
long in the larger specimens, 4 that size in the dwarf, varying from simple to lyrate- 
pinnatifid. Pedicels 2-3 inches long. Heads 4 lines long, 24 broad: inv. usually 
quite nude, sometimes with one or two small bracteoles at base. No specimen of 
**S. repandus” exists in Thunberg’s Herbarium, but his description agrees with our 
plant. I describe chiefly from Z. & Z.’s specimens of “S. membranifolius,” as being 
the best in condition of those enumerated, which however all appear to belong to the 
same species. I have only seen a scrap of “‘S. repandus,” DC. 
_ 9, 8. Lessingii (Harv.); annual, erect, branching; stem and branches 
terete, striate, puberulous, especially the young parts ; leaves on long 
petioles, oblong or obovate, repand or obsoletely crenate, membranous, 
veiny, glabrous or nearly so; petioles not eared at base, scarcely clasping; 
