Senecio. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) z 375 
volucres; upper leaves amplexicaul, oblong or lance-oblong, passing 
upwards into subulate leaf-seales; lower leaves petiolate, polymorphous 
(either lyrate, cordate, reniform, subrotund or multifid), more or less 
toothed or lobed, sometimes sparsely setulose, more or less amplexicaul 
at base; pedunc. scaly, simple and one-headed, or laxly corymbose, 
several headed; inv. scales about 12, naked-based, glabrous; rays 8-10 
(yellow or purple), flat; achenes long and slender, ribstriate, setulose, 
slightly beaked. Brachyrhynchos cymbalarif., DC.1. ¢. 438. Cineraria 
cymbalarifolia, Th. Cap. 671. 
Var. a. flavus (DC.); leaves lyrate, with many lateral lobes ; disc and ray yel- 
low. 
Var. 8. purpureus (DC.); leaves as in a« ; disc and ray purple. 
Var. y. rotundifolius (DC.); leaves roundish-reniform, toothed or lobed, without 
lateral lobes ; disc and ray purple. 
Var. 6. hastifolius ; leaves somewhat reniform, deeply 3-5 lobed or pedatifid, 
without lateral lobes ; dise and ray yellow. 8S. hastifolius, Less./ Cineraria hastifolia, 
Th.! Cap. 672. 
Has. Dry hills in the Western and S. Western districts, the several varieties 
often intermixed. a. and 8., Drakenstein, Drege/ Round Capetown and Simons- 
town, Eckl.! 8. Wright, 311, 316. Swellendam, Zey.! 2966. y. Capetown to Swellen- 
dam, E. § Z.!, Drege! Zey.!924. 5., Hanglip, Zey./ 925, Simonstown, Wright! 
310. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) : 
Root a tuber about 4-1 inch diam., buried 2-3 inches. Stems 2-6 inches high, 
closely leafy at base, the upper half gradually passing into a scaly peduncle. Low- 
est leaves long-petioled, scarcely broad-based ; the medial with broad, amplexicaul, 
leaf-like, toothed or cut bases; the upper sessile and amplexicaul. Lamina of the 
lower leaves very varied in its cutting, mostly quite glabrous, now and then setulose. 
Pedunc. 3-12 inches long, simple or branched; the branches corymbose, elongate, 
scaly, one-headed. Colour of flowers varying from bright purple to bright yellow, 
@ very uncommon circumstance. Achenes with a cup-like disc. 
68. S. tuberosus (Harv.); tuberous rooted, glabrous ; stem erect, her- 
baceous, simple or branched, leafy at base, pedunculoid and one or 
several headed upwards; upper leaves sessile, amplexicaul, oblong or 
lanceolate, toothed ; medial amplexicaul, petioled, lyrate-pinnatifid ; 
lower on long petioles, either cordate-reniform, toothed, or lyrate with 
1 or several lateral, toothed lobes, and a terminal reniform one; pedunc. 
laxly scaly; inv. scales 10-12, naked-based, glabrous; heads discoid, 
homogamous; achenes long, ribstriate, setulose, beaked. Doria pinna- 
tifida, Th.! Cap. 675. Brachyr. tuberosus, DC.1.c. 438. Cineraria tube- 
rosa, E. Mey. Brachyrh. trachycarpus, DC. ! 1. ¢. (excl. syn. Th.) Senecio 
incertus, DC. 1. c. 433+ 
Has. Paarl, Drege! Caledon, Eckl.! Tulbagh Waterfall, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Th. 
D., Hk., Sd. 
Quite ike 0, cymbalarifolius, var. a., except that the heads are discoid. Possibly 
a mere variety. I venture to unite DC.’s “Br, trachycarpus,” which, by description, 
can scarcely be different from the present. 
69. S. diversifolius (Harv.); root . . . .; stem erect, herbaceous, sim- 
ple or branched, leafy below, pedunculoid upwards, more or less cobweb- 
bed or woolly as well as the leaves; upper-leaves sessile, lanceolate or 
subulate, passing upwards into scales; lower petioled, polymorphous 
Sage pinnatisect, pinnatifid, or undivided) oblong-hastate, or oblong- 
anceolate, acute, subglabrous or densely woolly beneath, the young ones 
