386 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) [ Senecio. 
The stem is said to be 2-3 ft. high. The leaves have the texture and close reticulation 
of those of S. rigidus, and are anything but glabrous beneath. Mr, Gerrard’s speci- 
men to which I refer here consists of a lateral, flowering branch, about a foot long, 
bearing many leaves similar to that on Drege’s, but not quite sessile nor stem clasping. 
102. S. pterophorus (DC.! 1. c. 389); stem herbaceous, erect, rib- 
striate, cobwebbed or glabrate, virgate, corymboso-paniculate at the apex; 
leaves lanceolate, sharply and coarsely inciso-serrate, acuminate, tapering 
at base almost into a petiole, glabrate and green above, cano-tomentose 
beneath, the petiole produced at base (in var. «.) into narrow or obsolete, 
somewhat denticled stem-wings ; corymb very compound, pedicels scaly; 
inv. of many scales, amply calycled, glabrous; disc-fl, 40-50, rays 8-10; 
achenes glabrous, 
Var. a. verus; wings of the stem more or less obvious. 8S. pterophorus, DC. 1. ¢. 
( Drege ex pte. ) 
Vaz. 8. apterus; wings of the stem obsolete or none. S. pterophorus, ex pte, Drege! 
S. polyanthemoides, Sch.! Bip, Bot. Zeit. 27, p. 697. 8. polyanthemus, var. y. subser- 
ratus, DC. l. ¢. 
Has. Natal District. «. Betw. Omtendo and Omsamculo, Drege! B. Betw. Gekau 
and Basche, and betw. Omsamwubo and Omsamcaba, Drege/ Natal, Krauss! 424. 
Gueinzius! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem 2-3 ft. high. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 4-} inch wide. The stem wing is 
very narrow at best, and often obsolete, if Drege’s specimens all belong to the same 
species. This species is very closely related to S. juniperinus, but the leaves are not 
ear-clasping, and the fi, heads are smaller. 
103. S. ilicifolius (Th.! Cap, 682); stem robust, suffruticose at base, 
erect, rigid-herbaceous, leafy, branched at the summit, the branches 
cobwebbed, corymbiferous ; leaves clasping and adnate-subdecurrent at 
base, oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, acute, sharply and coarsely toothed, 
with reflexed or revolute margins, glabrous and scabrous-dotted above, 
albo-tomentose beneath ; corymb much branched, spreading, many- 
headed, the pedicels scaly ; heads 50-6o-fi., radiate ; inv. calycled, of 
12-15 glabrous scales; rays about 12, yellow; achenes minutely granu- 
lated. DC! 1. ¢. 391. S. quercifolius, Th.! Cap. 682. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Krebs, Mundt! Uitenhage and Albany, E. & Z.! Zey.! 2945- 
Camtour'’s R., Gill! Knysna, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd. 
Stem 2-3 f. high, branched at the summit, closely leafy. Leaves 1-2% inches 
long, 4 lines to 1} in. wide, rigid, sharply indented like those of a holly, with round 
spaces between the teeth ; upper surface glossy green, lower white. Infl. 5- to up- 
wards of 100-headed. A larger and coarser plant than S. juniperinus, with broader 
and more deeply toothed and rigid leaves. S. quercifolius, fide Herb. Th.! is merely 
the base of the stem, where the leaves are larger and more incised ! 
104. S, juniperinus (Linn. f. Suppl. 371); stem suffruticose, cobwebby- 
tomentose, branching, branches cobwebbed or nude, corymbiferous ; 
leaves half-clasping and often unidentate at base, linear-subulate or 
linear-lanceolate, subpungent-mucronate, with revolute or recurved mat- 
gins, either entire or sparingly toothed, or some furnished with a pair 
of opposite, horizontal lobes, scabro-punctulate and glabrate (cobwebbed) 
above, albo-tomentose beneath; corymb branching, loosely many-headed, 
the pedicels longish, scaly; heads 40-6o fi. radiate; inv. calycled, of 
12-15 glabrous, barbellate scales ; rays about 12, yellow ; achenes neatly 
