378 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Senecio. 
Stem 2-ft. high or more, leafy nearly to the base of the panicle, the upper leaves 
diminishing in size. Leaves very variable in size, and in the dentition of the margin, 
the wider ones penni-nerved, but even in the narrowest forms the upper leaves are 
amply cordate at base. Leayes in a, 4-6 inches long, 1-2 inches wide; in B, 3-4 
inches long, 3-1 inch wide; in y, much narrower. Panicle 6~10 inches across. Inv. 
2~3 lines long, much shorter than the disc. 
76. S. bupleuroides (DC.1.c. 387); woolly on the crown of root, other- 
wise glabrous; stem erect, flexuous, striate, sparsely leafy, nude above, 
and ending inalax, branching corymbose panicle ; cauline leaves varying 
from broadly ovato-lanceolate to elongato-lanceolate-acuminate, straight 
or faleate, rigid, quite entire or subdenticulate, midribbed and obliquely 
penni-nerved ; pedicels long, sparingly scaly ; inv. of about 8 broad, gla- 
brous, striate scales, nearly nude at base; disc-fl. 20-30; rays about 5; 
achenes glabrous, striate. 
Var. a, latifolius ; leaves broadly ovato or oblongo-lanceolate, acute. S. buplewr- 
formis, Sch. Bip.! Walp. Rep. 6. p. 263. 
Var. 8. angustifolius; leaves lanceolate-attenuate, 5-10 inches long, not § inch 
wide, often faleate. S. buplewroides, DC.1.c. 8. bupl. var. falcatus, Sch, Bip.! 1. ¢. 
Has. Omsamcaba, Drege! Natal, Plant! Gueinzius/ &c. B, Natal, Krauss/ Suther- 
land! Nonote, W.T. Gerrard! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Very nearly related to S. /atifolius, but with fewer leaves (usually 3-4), a flexuous 
stem, a laxer inflorescence, longer pedicels and more fl. in the heads. The leaves 
vary in shape quite as much as in S. latifolius: in a, 2-4 inches long, 1-1} broad; 
in 8. 5-10 inches long, 3-5 lines wide. 
777 §. glaberrimus (DC.1.c. 403); “herbaceous? quite glabrous, 
rigid ; stem simple, slender, angular, corymbose at summit; cauline 
leaves sessile, distant, ovate, acute, slightly cordate and clasping at 
base, quite entire, penni-nerved; corymb slightly compound, fastigiate, 
pedicels nearly nude, elongate; inv. half as long as disc, of 10 acute 
scales; disc-fl. 20-25, rays 4-5; achenes glabrous, striate, 
Has. Omsamcaba, Omtendo and Omsamculo, Drege. 
“18 in. high. Radical lvs. unknown; cauline 3 in. long, 15 1. wide.’ Unknown 
to us. The above diagnosis answers equally well for 8. buplewroides, DC.; does it 
really differ ? ; 
78. S. adnatus (DC. 1. c. 388) ; quite glabrous, rigid, erect, herba- 
ceous ; stem ribbed and furrowed, leafy, virgate, corymboso-paniculate 
at the apex ; leaves elongato-lanceolate, quite entire, margined, mid- 
ribbed and obliquely veined, acuminate, the lower (not seen), the medial 
stem-clasping, shortly decurrent or adnate at base, the uppermost sessile, 
gradually shorter and narrower ; infl. level-topped, much divided, the 
partial corymbs 10—12-headed, with short, nude pedicels; inv. nearly 
nude at base, cylindrical, of 5-6 broad, flat scales ; dise-fl. 8-12, rays 
3, long, spreading ; achenes quite glabrous, narrowed upwards. 
Has. Katberg, and betw. Windvogelberg and Zwartkey, Drege! Katberg, H. 
Hutton! (Herb, Hk., D., Sd.) 
Stem probably 3-4 ft. high, the lower part not seen. Medial leaves 5-8 inches 
long, 1-14 inch wide. Inv, 4-5 lines long. Fl. yellow. Heads in the general infl- 
over 100, 
78. 8, isatideus (DC.! 1. c. 387); quite glabrous, except for the woolly 
