384 COMPOSIT& ( Harv.) [ Senecio. 
perfect raceme; inv. with a many-leaved, woolly calycle, its scales 8-10, 
glabrous, flat, lanceolate, acuminate, equalling the disc-fl.; rays 5-6, 
yellow; achenes short, terete, closely hairy. DC. 1. ¢. 393. S. squamosus, 
Th.! Cap. 683. Prenanthes glomerata, Rehb. Sieb. Cap. 26. Breyn. Cent. 
t. 65. 
Has. Roadsides and waste ground about Capetown and at the Paarl, very com- 
mon. (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
Root perennial. Stem 3-4 ft. high, bushy, quite woody at base ; the branches 
widely spreading, slender, rod-like. Lower leaves 1-24 inches long, 4~3 inch wide, 
either entire or few-toothed, or deeply pinnatifid ; upper leaves } inch—rarely 1 in. 
long ; those on the fi. branches reduced to scales. Heads small; inv. scales 3-4 
lines long. 
97. S. incisus (Th.! Cap. 683); stem ligneous at base, diffusely 
much-branched, herbaceous upwards ; branches rib-furrowed, scabro- 
pubescent and cobwebby, glabrous upwards; cauline leaves stem-clasp- 
ing, rigid, scabrous above, cobwebby or cottony beneath, elongate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, sharply and unequally cut or pinnatifid, the lobes 
toothed, the upper leaves smaller, narrower and less deeply cut; fi. 
branches rod-like and racemose below, panicled and corymbulose at the 
apex, the heads partly clustered, partly pedicellate ; pedicels short, 
scaly ; inv. calycled, both calycle and scales glabrous, scales 8—12 flat, 
lanceolate-acuminate, equalling the disc-fl. ; rays 5-6, yellow ; disc-fl. 
15-20; achenes pubescent. S. phalachrolenus. DC.! 1. ¢. 393. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ East of Capetown, Burchell, 8026. Wagenmakers Bosch, 
Swell., Mundt.! Berg R., Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Very near S. pubigerus and somewhat intermediate between that and S. expansus 
From S. pubigerus it differs in the glabrous calycle and the tendency to a corymbose 
or panicled inflorescence ; from S. expansus in general aspect, involucre, and a ten- 
dency to racemose infl. in the lower part. 
98. S. expansus (Harv.); stem herbaceous, diffuse, terete, scabro- 
pubescent, the branches widely spreading, loosely panicled at summit ; 
leaves alternate, sub-distant, stem-clasping, cordate at base, scabrous 
on both sides, paler and netted-veined beneath, the lower more or less 
deeply lyrate-pinnatifid, the medial oblong, distantly toothed and repand, 
the uppermost ovate-acuminate, small; panicle very loose, alternately 
compound, the pedicels filiform, scaly ; inv. calycled, glabrous, of 10-12 
narrow, acute scales equalling the disc; rays about 5, spreading; achenes 
minutely and closely puberulous. S. lyratus, DC./ l. c. 382, excl. syn 
Has. Dutoitskloof ; Simonsberg; and Kl. Draakenstein, near Berg R., Drege! 
(Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Root perennial? Branches 3-4 ft. long, very diffuse, the terminal, lax panicle 1 
foot or more in length. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 1-1 inch wide, the uppermost 
diminished to scales, Pubescence very short, but rigid. Teeth of the leaves sharp, 
with wide, rounded interspaces ; margin slightly reflexed. Inv. turbinate, 3 lines 
long. Allied to S. pubigerus and S. incisus, but differing in infl., &¢{from both. 
DC. places it among the annual species, to none of which is it nat f . 
99. S. lyratus (Linn. f. suppl.; non. DC.); herbaceous, erect or strag- 
gling, more or less scabrous, with minute, rigid pubescence ; stem terete, 
striate, pithy; cauline leaves stem-clasping, variable in shape, lyrate OF 
lacero-pinnatifid, acute, or the upper ones narrow-oblong, all sharply 
