364 COMPOSITZ (Hary.) [ Senecio. 
et Berg?) Jacq. Ie. Rar. 3. t. 580. S. mucronulatus, Sch. Bip. Bot. Zeit. 
27. p. 7Ol. 
Has. Moist places. Various localities on and round Table Mt., Mundt./ Bowie/ 
Eckl.! Drege! Cape Flats. Dutoits Kloof, and Kl, Draakenstein, Drege, Pletten- 
berg Bay, Dr. Pappe! Vanstaaden Mts., Uit., Zey. ! 2972,ex pte. (Herb. D.,Sd., Hk.) 
Stem 3-4 ft. high, strictly herbaceous, fistular upwards. Lowest leaves, with 
their petiole, 12-18 inches long. the terminal lobe 3-4 inches wide. Upper cauline 
leaves 2-4. inches long, 3-14 inch wide. Heads very numerous, 3-4 lines long. 
Thunberg’s ‘‘ Jacobea purpurea” (by description) must be different; but I cannot 
find it in his Herb. 
32. S. odontopterus (DC. ! 1. c. 406); in all respects like S. purpureus, 
except that the cauline leaves are more or less prolonged at base, into 
a decurrent, toothed or incised, vanishing stem-wing. 
Has. On the Paarl Mt., Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
I have not seen the radical leaves, which seem, by description, to be identical 
with those of 8S. purpureus: the decurrent character of the cauline leaves varies con- 
siderably, and I find no difference in the floral characters or in the achenes; this 
probably, therefore, ought to rank as a mere var. of S. purpureus, 
33. S. glabrifolius (DC. 1. c. 406); “ herbaceous, erect, branched, 
glabrous ; fl. branches terete, nude, 1-headed, sparsely scaly under the 
head; leaves crowded at the base of the stem, petiolate, pinnatipartite, 
the lobes incised, often trifid, heads about 25-fl., discoid ; inv. nude at 
base, of 12-15 scales shorter than the disc ; achenes black, oblong, sub- 
compressed, with sparse, whitish pubescence ; corollas tipped with red.” 
DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Kamiesberg, Drege. 
Unknown to me, except by a frustule, without fl. heads, in Hb, Sd. 
84. 8. barbatus (DC. 1. c. 406); perennial, the stem, leaves, pedicels, 
and iny. scales pilose, with long, jointed, soft hairs; stem ascending, sim- 
ple, closely leafy throughout; lower leaves obovate-oblong, tapering at 
base, medial linear-oblong, sessile, both toothed; upper linear or lance- 
linear, subentire, with slightly revolute margins; pedicels several, sub- 
corymbose, terminal, rising among the upper leaves, and scarcely longer; 
heads discoid, many-fl.; inv. calycled with a few, very slender, filiform 
bracteoles, of 12-18 linear, scabrous, and pilose scales; achenes cano- 
pubescent. 
Haz. Katberg, 4~5000 ft., Drege: same range, at 2000 ft., 7. Hutton! (Hb. D.) 
Stems several from the crown, at first decumbent, then suberect, 6-12 inches long. 
Leaves closely imbricating, 2-3 inches long, 4-5 lines wide, gradually smaller and 
narrower upwards; all but the uppermost ones toothed. The hairs which are copl- 
ously scattered over all the young parts are very distinctly jointed, and nearly 1} 
line long, Invol. § lines long. Flowers bluish-purple; according to Mr. Hutton, 
blue.” A remarkable and seemingly rare species ; I have only seen the specimen 
collected by Mr. Hutton, who found but one root. It is nearly allied to S. thyrsov- 
deus, but looks different. 
35. S. thyrsoideus (DC.! 1. c. 406); perennial, the stem, leaves, pedi- 
_ eels, and inv. scales pilose with long, jointed, soft hairs ; radical leaves 
rosulate, numerous, lanceolate or oblongo-lanceolate, narrowed toward 
the base, repand-toothed or subentire; stem ascending-erect, ending 0 
