a 
376 . composIT# (Harv.) [Senecio. 
often cobwebbed above; pedunc. elongate, scaly, simple or branched, 
the branches one-headed; inv. scales 14-20, glabrous or cobwebbed; 
heads many-fl., discoid; achenes long, angular, scabrous-muricated, 
somewhat beaked. Brachyr. elongatus, Less.! DC. 1. ¢. 
Var. a., pinnatifidus ; leaves in outline lance-oblong, acute or acuminate, deeply 
pinnatifid, the lobes in many pairs, toothed or incised, the uppermost 2-3 pairs, 
confluent into a pinnatifid terminal lobe. Doria elongata, var. B., Hb. Th.! Brachyr. 
albicaulis, DC.! l. c. 438, also B, diversifolius, vars. a, and B, DC. 1. ¢. 439. 
Var. 8., integrifolius ; leaves oblong-hastate, acute, cuneate or truncate at base, 
toothed. Doria elongata, vars. a, and y., Herb. Th.! Brach, diversifolius, var. -y, 
cuneatus, DC. l. ¢. 
Has. Western and S. Eastern Districts. Thunberg! a, Olifants R., and Saldanha 
Bay and Camiesberg. Drege! Stellenbosch and Swellendam. Worcester and Clan- 
i Rae E. § Z.! Groenekloof and Tulbach, Dr. Pappe! 8B. Hb. Thunb./ Swellen- 
dam, Mundt./ Riebeckskasteel, Drege. Herb. Th., D., Hk. Sd.) 
This varies quite as much in the cutting of its leaves as S. cymbalarifolius and 
S. pinnatifidus, but is to be known from the latter not only by its tendency to wool- 
liness, but by the want of a terminal cordate-reniform leaf-lobe in the pinnatifid 
varieties, and the hastate-acute form of the simple lamina in var. 8. I do not find 
it possible to distinguish as species the forms separated by De Candolle from Thun- 
bery’s ‘Doria elongata” ; but I gladly adopt DC’s trivial name ‘‘diversifolius,” as 
more expressive than that of Thunberg. 
70. S. anthemifolius (Harv.); quite glabrous, crown not woolly; 
radical leaves long-petioled, bipinnati-partite, the lobes and lobules 
shortly linear, divaricate, flat, blunt; cauline leaves few, sessile, half- 
clasping, pinnati- or bipinnati-partite ; stem simple, shortly peduncular 
at summit, one-headed ; heads discoid ; inv. scales 18-20, glabrous, 
slightly calycled; heads many-fl.; achenes long, tapering upwards, 
with many canescent striz. 
Has. Voormansbosch, Swell., Zeyher! 746. (Herb. Sond.) 
Root probably tuberous. Radical leaves numerous, 3 inches long, the pinne in 
several pairs, not a line wide, all remarkably patent, more or less compound. Stem 
10-12 inches high, bearing 2-5 leaves, similar to the radical, but sessile. Iny. scales 
6-7 lines long. Achenes tapering into a slender neck, 
71. §. orbicularis (Sond.! in Herb.); root tuberous ? all parts quite 
glabrous ; stem shortly leafy, simple, ending in a long, nude, laxly co- 
tymbose peduncle; leaves on long petioles, fleshy, glaucous, peltate, 
orbicular, or oval, unequally callous-denticulate, or ciliato-dentate ; inv. 
nearly nude, of 8-g acute scales equalling the disc; heads discoid, 12—- 
20-f1.; achenes hispidulous. 
Has. Magalisberg, Burke ¢ Zey! 931. (Herb. Hk., Sd. D.) 
Very near S. ovyriefolius, but the leaves are almost exactly orbicular ; the 
petiole nearly equidistant from the margin. The serratures vary much in degree. 
Leaves 14-2 inches diameter ; petioles 2-2} inches long. Infl. as in S. oxyriefolius. 
72. 8. oxyriefolius (DC.! 1. c. 405); root tuberous, all parts quite 
glabrous ; stem erect, shortly leafy, simple, ending in a long, nude, ¢o- 
rymboso-paniculate peduncle; leaves on long petioles, fleshy, glaucescent, 
more or less peltate, cordate or hastate, either repand, denticulate oF 
angle-lobulate, the salient points acute; corymb or panicle laxly few- 
headed, pedicels elongate; inv. scarcely calycled, of 8-9 ta r-pointed 
scales equalling the disc; heads discoid, 12-20-fl.; achenes hispidulous 
