360 .  COMPOSITz (Harv.) [ Senecio. 
erect, branching ; leaves half-clasping at base, long-petioled, some ovate- 
oblong, sinuate toothed or incised, some pinnatipartite with a large ter- 
minal lobe; infl. laxly panicled, subcorymbose, the pedicels long and 
slender; inv. scarcely calyculate, 10o-12-scaled, glandularly-pubescent ; 
disc-fl. 20-30, rays 5, long, 4-nerved, spreading; achenes pubescent on 
the strie. - 
Has. Between Kaus and the Gariep, Drege! (Herb. Hk.) 
6-10 inches high, slender. Petioles 1-14 inch long, 1 line wide ; lamina uncial. 
Inv. 3 lines long ; the exserted portion of the yellow ray 4 lines. 
22. S. glutinarius (DC.! 1. c. 381); annual, viscoso-pubescent, pilose 
with swollen hairs; stem erect, fistular, panicled upwards ; leaves eared 
and clasping at base, oblong, sinuate-toothed or bluntly pinnatifid, 
thickish, on both sides hairy ; infl. subcorymbose, rather dense, the 
heads on short pedicels; invol. of 10-12 scales, subcalyculate, glabrous, 
the scales oblong, acute ; disc fl. 20-30, rays few, short and revolute ; 
achenes striate, puberulous. S. glutinosus, EZ. Mey / (non Th.) 
Has, Saldanha Bay, Drege! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
A foot or more high, much branched, viscidulous. Leaves (not in good state in 
our specimens) 1-14 inch long, 4-1 inch wide. Heads small; inv. 24 lines long. 
Rays very short. Known among allied species by its perfectly glabrous involucre 
and viscid pubescence of the parts. 
23. S. glutinosus (Th.! Cap. 684); annual, in all parts viscoso-pubes- 
cent ; stem erect, robust, fistular above, panicled upwards ; leaves ob- 
tusely pinnatifid, elongate, the lowermost petioled, the upper amplexicaul 
and eared at base, sinuses rounded, lobes blunt, and bluntly toothed or 
repand, short; panicle lax, subcorymbose, the pedicels long, glandular; 
invol, either nude at base or 1~-2-bracteolate, the scales numerous, 
linear-acuminate, glandularly pubescent; rays yellow, spreading or 
revolute ; achenes striate, minutely pilose. DC. /. c. p. 381. 
Var. 8, inamenus; lvs. (in outline) oblong-obovate, their lobes deeper and longer 
than in a.; infl. corymbose. SS. inamenus, DC. ! 1. c. 382. Zey.! 2964 (starved ). 
Var. y. brachyglossus ; stem more rigid, subsimple ; lys. narrower, with short 
lobes ; inv. scales sparsely setulose ; rays short, revolute. S. brachyglossus, Turez.! 
Bull. Mose. XXIV. I. p. 87. Walp. Ann. 5, p. 336. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Has. Table Mountain and round Capetown, Thunberg! Ecklon (ex pte.), W.H.H. 
Ra ggtad ere R., Uitenhage, £.é Z.! y. Caledon River, Ecklon! (Herb. Th., 
-» Hk., Sd.) 
1-2 or 3 ft, high, or 2-3 inches when starved, covered in all parts with short, 
glandular pubescence. Lower leaves (in large specimens) 6-8 inches long, uppeT 
2-3 inches ; very variable in size, tolerably constant to an oblong form, deeply but 
bluntly cut, with very round spaces between the lobes. In foliage and other cha- 
racters this greatly resembles 8, hastulatus, with which it is often confounded in 
Herbaria ; but that has a perennial, thick rhizome, and numerous radical leaves. 
24. S. elegans (Linn! Sp. 1218); annual, viscoso-pubescent, erect 
or diffuse, paniculately branched; leaves ear-clasping at base, petioled, 
polymorphous (either oblong subentire or toothed, lyrate, pinnatifid, 
pinnati-partite or bipinnati-partite, with cuneate, toothed or incise lobes 
or lobules); corymb laxly several headed, the pedicels long and scaly; 
heads radiate, many-fl., the disc yellow, rays purple; inv. calycled with 
many broad ciliate black-tipped bracteoles, of 12-15 broadly linear, 
