372 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Senecio. 
simple, terete, nude above ; leaves oblong, toothed, the lowermost taper- 
ing into a petiole, upper sessile, narrower ; pedicels few, one-headed, 
subracemose, 1—2-scaled at the summit, twice as long as the head; inv. 
ealycled, of 12 scales, equalling the dise; disc-fl. about 30, rays 8, long, 
4-nerved; achenes tapering upwards, striate, pubescent.” DC. 1. c. 
Has. On the Klipplaat River and the Witberg, 3500-6000 feet, Drege. Albany 
and Uitenhage. Zckion. (Unknown to me.) 
“A foot high. Lower leaves 3 inches long, 8-9 lines wide. Inv. § lines long.” DC. 
57. 8. gramineus (Harv.); rootstock not woolly ; radical leaves 
many, narrow-linear, elongate, blunt, with strongly revolute margins, 
glabrous or cobwebby below, cauline leaves similar, few and distant ; 
stem scapelike, filiform, rigid, cobwebby or glabrate, simple, r-headed ; 
inv. calycled at base, of many narrow, keeled, taperpointed, cobwebby 
scales ; rays 6-8; disc-fl. 30-40; achenes (young) villous. 
Has. Vanstaadensberg, Uit., Zey.! (Herb. Sond.) 
Rootstock slender. Radical leaves 3-4 inches long, 3 line wide, quite linear 
throughout. Stem 6-8 inches high. Inv. 4 lineslong. Of this I have seen but a 
single specimen, and propose it as a species with some hesitation. But for its villous 
ovaries it might be regarded as an extremely emaciated form of S. Albanensis. 
58. S. crispus (Thunb.! Cap. 680) ; nearly or quite glabrous; root- 
stock oblique, not woolly at the crown; radical leaves numerous, taper- 
ing at base into a longish petiole, oblongo-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, 
bluntly toothed or repand, with subreflexed edges; stems herbaceous, 
rigid, ribbed and furrowed, erect, simple, corymbose at the summit, 
leafy ; cauline leaves sessile, erect, oblong, toothed, blunt, with revolute 
edges ; corymb closely several-headed; heads multiradiate, hemispheri- 
eal; inv. glabrous, calycled, of many oblong-acuminate scales; achenes 
(young) short, compressed, glabrous, ciliolate. S. sulcatus, DC. 1. ¢. 384- 
Has. Summit of Table Mt., Thunberg/ Drege, Ecklon! W.H.H. (Herb. Th., D.) 
Rhizome 4-5 lines diameter. Rad. leaves 3-7 inches long, the petiole t-4 inches ; 
lamina 4-1 inch broad. Cauline leaves numerous, very erect. Stem 12-18 inches 
high. Corymb closely branched, flat topped, 10-20-headed. Inv. 3 lines long, 4-5 
lines wide. The ovaries look as if the achenes might be compressed or flattened, in 
which case this species should be removed to Cineraria. 
59. S. decurrens (DC. 1. c. 388); stem herbaceous, erect, ribbed and 
furrowed, cobwebby, virgate, corymboso-paniculate at the apex; leaves 
oblongo-lanceolate, calloso-crenulate, above glabrate, beneath cobwebby- 
canescent, “ the radical on long petioles” (DC. ), the cauline decurrent 
In a coarsely toothed wing; corymb compound, fastigiate, the pedicels 
long, nude; inv. cobwebby, of many scales, amply calycled with long, 
2-3 seriate bracteoles; heads many-fl. ; rays 10-12, yellow ; achenes 
quite glabrous, elongate. 
Has. Omeamcaba, Dreye! Fort Bowker, J. H. Bowker, 603. (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
I haye not seen the radical leaves, which are said to be nearly 2 ft. long. Stem 
3-4 ft. high, leafy up to the base of the corymb. Lower leaves 6-12 inches, uppeT 
3-5 inches long, 1-1} inch wide. Heads 5-6 lines across, like those of S. Albanensis, 
but with an ampler calycle. 
60. S. digitalifolius (DC. 1. c. 397); “herbaceous, erect, cobwebby 
canescent ; leaves crenato-dentate, acuminate, the” [radical and] “lower 
