366 COMPOSITE (Harv.) | Senecio. 
headed; cauline leaves half-clasping, erect, linear-acuminate or subulate, 
with strongly revolute margins ; heads discoid, roo-fl. or more; inv. 
scabrous, calycled, of 12-20 linear, acuminate, keeled scales; achenes 
terete, striate, puberulous. 
Var. 8. glabrior; stem and leaves varying from scabrid-puberulous to nearly 
glabrous! (Drege! in Hb. Hk.) 
Has. Cape, Bowie! Albany, Ecklon! Cypher Font., Grahamstown, P. MeOwan, 
23. Zwartkey, Drege!- Modder-rivier’s Spruit, Zey./ (Hb. D., Sd., Hk., Cap.) 
Rootstock thick and woody; stem rigid, 8-18 inches high, the smaller simple, 
the larger sparingly branched. Root leaves 3-10 inches long, 2—4 lines wide, vary- 
ing from minutely calloso-denticulate to somewhat coarsely callous-serrate ; the 
narrow ones almost entire. Heads much larger and leaves narrower and more rigid 
than in S. serratus, to which this is allied. Drege’s specimens (var. B.) are very 
much less rough than £. ¢ Z.’s. 
39. 8. serratus (Sond.!); scabrous-pubescent, viscidulous; rootstock 
not woolly; radical leaves long-petioled, oblongo or obovato-lanceolate, 
or lance-linear, tapering to the base, subobtuse or acute, one-nerved, 
unequally and rather coarsely callous-toothed; stem erect, herbaceous, 
laxly leafy, corymbose or panicled upwards; cauline leaves sessile, 
ear-clasping, oblong, toothed, the uppermost small and taper-pointed ; 
infl. lax, few or many-headed, pedicels long or short ; inv. campanulate, 
‘scabrous, with a few small basal bracteoles, of many linear, acuminate, 
keeled scales; heads discoid, 30—-50-fl.; achenes terete, striate, puberu- 
lous. Doria serrata, Th.! Cap. 674. Cineraria serrata, Willd.! Senecio 
leontodontis, DC.! 1. c. 386. S. rudis, Turez. ! Bull. Mose. 1851. 
Has. Cape, Thu LE, GZ. i ! 2 ‘Ken.! 
eee ae are era § Camiesberg, Drege! Zululand, Gerr. § M‘Ken 
Root leaves many, 3-6 inches long, including the petiole; stem-leaves 2-3 inches 
long, 3-4 lines wide. Stem 6-18 inches high, the smaller specimens subsimple, 
2—3-headed ; the larger branching, to-20-headed. All parts very rough. I do not 
find this in Hb. Thunb., but a specimen of Thunberg’s collecting (Hb. Sond.) quite 
with those of Ecklon and Drege. Gerrard’s specimen has rather narrowet 
leaves, but does not otherwise differ. 
40. S. hypochoerideus (DC. 1. c. 386) ; “herbaceous, erect, scabrid- 
pubescent; radical leaves oblong, obtuse, tapering into a petiole, coarsely 
callous-crenate ; stems laxly leafy, simple, or divided into 1-2, one- 
headed, nude branches ; heads nearly roo-fl., discoid; inv. sparingly 
calycled, of 20 scales ; achenes terete, puberulous.” DC. l. ¢. 
Has. Betw. Windvogelberg and Zwartkey, 2000-4000 ft., Drege. 
Except for the larger fl. heads this seems to come very near S. serratus. De 
Candolle says it has the habit and roughness of S, puberulus; and the crenate leaves 
of S. crenulatus. 
41, S. eriobasis (DC.! 1. c. 388); woolly on the rootstock, nearly or 
quite glabrous; radical leaves petioled, oblong or elongate, obtuse, 
more or less deeply and bluntly inciso-pinnatifid, with short, toothed 
lobes and rounded interstices; stem erect, herbaccous, fistular, sparingly 
leafy, corymbose at the summit; corymb lax, the pedicels elongate ; 
c leaves small, sessile, deeply incised; rays numerous, yellow ; 
iny. calycled, of many linear, acute, glabrous scales ; achenes terete, 
