Senecio. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 381 
Has. Highlands of Natal, Gerr. ¢ M‘K., 1043. (Herb. D.) 
‘* Herbaceous, 4-5 ft. high; fl. yellow or blue,” W. 7. G. Only known to me by 
a lateral twig, 14 inches long, with its subtending rameal-leaf. This latter is about 
44 inches long, of which the lamina is 24 inches, the narrow or petiolar portion 14- 
and the auricle about 4 inch: lamina 2} inches wide, winged petiole }inch. Heads, 
small ; the dried flowers are dark-tipped, and may have been blue. With the foliage 
of 8. verbascifolius, this has widely different inflorescence. Fl. and achenes immature. 
86. S. verbascifolius (Burm. Pr. Cap. 26); stem robust, ligneous at 
base, herbaceous, ascending, clothed, as well as the petioles and under 
surface of the leaves with a thick, snow-white, felted, woolly coating; 
leaves on long, linear, ear-clasping petioles, cordate, remotely callous- 
denticulate, cobwebby (becoming glabrate) above ; petioles of the upper 
leaves broad and amply dilated at base; corymbs laxly few or several 
headed, the pedicels glabrate ; inv. glabrous, calycled, of many scales; 
heads many-fi., radiate, the rays yellow, about 12; achenes glabrous. 
DC.11. c. 389. Cineraria tussilaginea, Thunb. Cap.671. Cin. hypoleuca, 
Sieb.! Cap. 33. 
Has. On Table Mountain, Thunberg! Sieb.! Eckl.! Drege! Pappe! W. H. H., &e. 
(Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems several, thick at base ; 1-2 ft. high, leafy throughout, the lower leaves 
large and on long petioles; the upper gradually smaller, and the uppermost fiddle- 
shaped. Petioles 2-3 inches long; lamina 14-24 inches long, 14-2 in. wide. Toment 
very thick and white. Inv. 4—5 lines long, as much in diam. 
87. S. cinerascens (Ait.); stem suffruticose, erect, virgate, thinly 
white-woolly, leafy, corymbiferous; leaves more or less petioled, pinnati- 
partite or pinnatifid, the lobes on each side 2~4, linear or lance-oblong, 
obtuse, with revolute margins, albo-tomentose beneath, either tomentose 
or glabrate above; upper leaves sessile ; corymb subsimple, few-headed, 
the pedicels long; inv. cobwebbed or glabrate, calycled, of many scales ; 
heads many-fl., rays “ 3-5, flat, not revolute,” or none. Jacg. Schoenb. 
t.150, DC./ 1. c. 389. Jacobea tomentosa, Th.! Cap. 678. Sen. tomen- 
tosus, Salish. Prod. 196. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Kamiesberg, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
Stem 1-2 ft. high, pale. Leaves 3-5 inches long, the rachis 1-4 lines wide ; lobes 
4-1 inch long, 1-2 lines wide. Corymb 3-8-headed. Heads 5-6 lines long, and 
nearly equally broad. I have not seen rays on the few specimens examined. 
88. S. tortuosus (DC. 1. c. 392); suffruticose or shrubby, erect, densely 
much-branched, in all parts (save the denuded stems) shortly pubescent ; 
twigs flexuous, sparsely leafy ; leaves cuneate-obovate, coarsely few- 
toothed, or somewhat lyrate, tapering at base into a petiole as long as 
the lamina or longer, not prominently veiny ; pedune. ending leafy 
twigs, short, few-scaled, one-headed ; inv. nearly nude at base, gland- 
scabrid, to-12-scaled ; rays about 5, yellow, short, revolute, disc-fl. 
30-40; achenes striate, minutely pubescent. 
Be Olifant’s R., Drege! Worcester, E. § Z./ Knakisberg, Zey.! 926. (Herb. 
Prter high, woody in age, but slender, branches very flexuous or zigzag. 
All the younger parts minutely rough with subglandular, spreading hairs. Petioles 
3_1 inch long ; lamina $—# inch long, 4~6 lines wide, variable in shape. Pecunc. 
1-1} inch long, slender. Inv. 4 lines long, 3 1. broad. 
