Senecio. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 367 
Has. Worcester, Eckl.! Brackfontein, Zey.! (Herb. Sond., Cap.) 
Root-leaves 6-10 inches long, of thin substance, 1-2 inches wide. Stem 13-2 ft. 
high, branched beyond the middle. Heads several. A larger plant than S. erosus, 
from which it is known by its glabrous leaves, stems and involucres. 
42. 8. erosus (Linn. f. Suppl. 370) ; woolly on the crown of the root, 
viscoso-pubescent; radical leaves numerous, petioled, oblong or obovate- 
oblong, obtuse, bluntly inciso-pinnatifid, with short, toothed lobes and 
rounded interstices, or repando-dentate; stem scape-like, nude above, 
with a few distant, small, sessile, toothed or pinnatifid leaf-scales, sim- 
ple and one-headed or branched, 2~3-headed ; rays numerous, yellow ; 
inv. sparingly calycled, of many linear, acuminate, scabrous-pubescent 
scales; achenes terete, minutely pubescent. Thunb. Cap. 684. DC. le. 
388. Cineraria pandurata, Th. ! Cap. 672, and Doria incisa, Th.! Cap. 
675. Senecio panduratus, Less. Syn. 392 (non DC.) 
Var. 8, repandus; leaves repand-toothed, not incised. Cineraria crenata, Spreng. 
Sieb. Fl. 284. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg ! Kamp’s Bay hills, Eckl.! W.H.H. Caledon, Eck.! Stellen- 
bosch, Dr. Prior! Steendal, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe ! Babyl. Toorn, Kl. Rivier’s Berg, 
Zey.! 2793. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
With the foliage of S. hastulatus, this has usually a simple, one-headed, scape-like 
stem, and may always be known from the dwarf states of that species by the woolly 
crown of the root. 
43. S. hastulatus (Linn. Sp. 1218); rootstock thick and woody, sub- 
horizontal, not woolly at the crown; radical leaves numerous, petiolate, 
inciso-pinnatifid, viscoso-pubescent, the lobes in several pairs, short, 
blunt, eroso-dentate or coarsely toothed or lobulate, the sinuses rounded; 
stems herbaceous, leafy, corymboso-paniculate upwards, striate, pubes- 
cent; cauline leaves ear-clasping, inciso-pinnatifid, with short, toothed 
lobes ; corymb laxly few or several-headed, the pedicels long ; heads 
multi-radiate ; inv. nearly nude at base, of many scabrid, linear-attenu- 
ate, round-backed scales; achenes finely striate, minutely downy. DC. 
lc. 383. Dill.! Elth. t. 152, f. 184. Also 8. panduratus, DC.? 1. ¢. (exle. 
syn. Less.! and Th.!). E. & Z.! Drege! Herb. WS. glutinosus, Eckl. ! (ex 
parte). S.? brachyrhynchoides, DC.! 1. c. ex Hb. Drege! 
Var. B, nudiusculus ; radical leaves obovate-oblong, tapering at base into a peti- 
ole, crenate or more or less deeply and bluntly inciso-pinnatifid ; stems nearly leaf- 
less, simple and one-headed, or 2-3-headed. S. nudiusculus, DC. 1. c. 384. 
Has. Round Capetown and Simonstown, Bowie! W.H.H., C. Wright, 306. Tul- 
bagh, Dr. Pappe! Zwarteberg and Groenekloof, Drege! Caledon, Eckl.! Distr. of 
Queenstown, 7’. Cooper ! 232. Buffelsjagt, Gill / Basutu Land, 7. Cooper, 715 (de- 
pauperated). 8, near Beaufort, Drege. Zwartkops R., Pappe! (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.,Cap.) 
Rhizome } inch thick. Root leaves (from the crown) 4-7 inches long, 1-2 inches 
wide ; their lobes }-} inch wide. Stems 1-2 feet high, fistular, pale, corymboso- 
paniculate ; pedicels 3-4 inches long. Heads 5 lines long, as many wide. Rays 
yellow, spreading. Known from S. glutinosus, which it resembles in foliage, by the 
rootstock; from S. erosus by the non-woolly crown, &c. S.? brachyrhynchoides, DC. > 
according to a specimen from Drege (Hb. Hk.), is surely only a dwarf state of this 
species. Our var 8. in its typical state, with obovate, crenate leaves, and nude, 
subsimple stems, looks different, but Dr. Pappe’s imens, all collected in the same 
spot, vary with deeply cut leaves, closely approaching those of the common variety. 
Dillenius’ figure, above quoted, is an excellent representation of the normal form, 
