388 COMPOSIT& (Harv.) [ Senecio. 
107. S. microspermus (DC. 1. c. 391); “stem suffruticose, branching, 
diffuse or depressed, cobwebby ; leaves crowded, sessile, half-clasping, 
ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, scabrid above, cobweb-woolly 
beneath ; branches scarcely nude at the summit, 1-2-headed ; inv. of 
about 20 subulate, glabrous scales, shorter than the disc, amply calycled 
with cobwebby bracteoles; disc-fl. about 50, rays few? achenes menute, 
“microscopically puberulous. DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Algoa Bay, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
** Leaves 8-9 lines long, 3 lines wide.” 
108, S. hirtifolius (DC.! 1. ¢. 394); subherbaceous or suffruticose, 
all parts densely pubescent with short, spreading, rigid hairs; branches 
erect, angular ; leaves crowded, sessile, oblong-obovate, cuneate and 
tapering at base, coarsely 5~7-toothed above, on both sides equally hairy, 
flat, rigid, thickish ; pedunc, terminal, nude, simple or branched; 
corymbs few-headed, rather loose ; inv. oblong, calycled, of about 12 
scabrous scales, shorter than the disc ; disc-fl. 15-20; rays about 5, 
reflexed ; achenes striate, hispidulous. 
Has. Near the Zwartkops R., Uitenhage, Ecklon! (Herb. Sd., Cap.) 
Stem 1-2 ft. high, the branches very erect, closely leafy. Leaves imbricate, 14 
inch long, 4-3 inch wide, erect, of thickish substance, coarsely velvetty with short 
hairs. Pedune. 4-6 inches long. Inv. scales 4~5 lines long. A well marked species. 
109. S. vestitus (Berg. Cap. 282); quite glabrous and smooth ; stem 
- suffruticose, terete, finely striate, leafy; leaves stem-clasping, broad-based, 
oblong or obovate, obtuse, membranous, sharply and unequally serrate, 
netted-veined; corymb patently much-branched, many-headed, pedicels 
scaly, divaricate ; heads radiate, 20—30-fl.; inv. calycled, glabrous, of 
many narrow scales ; rays 6-8, yellow; achenes striate, hispidulous. 
Jacobea vestita, Th.! Cap. 677. 8. rigidus, var. glabrescens, E. Mey.! in 
Hb. Drege. DC. l. c. 393. 
Has. Cape, Bergius, Thunberg! Camiesberg and Modderfontein ; also in Dutoit’s 
aes on Knysna, Dr. Pappe! Mitchell’s Pass, A, Wyley! (Herb. Th., D., 
Very similar to S. rigidus in the form of the leaves and habit ; but perfectly gla- 
brous and smooth in all parts, with thinner and softer leaves, and a more spreading 
panicle. If not a “species,” it seems to be a well-marked and widely spread “form.” 
Our specimens exactly agree with one in Hb. Thunb.! 
110. S. aquifoliaceus (DC.!1. c. 394); stem herbaceous? terete, here 
and there setose; leaves very closely crowded, shortly adnate, lanceolate, 
sharply and coarsely toothed, penninerved, on each side glabrous, or 
the young ones setulose on the nerves, rigid ; corymb compound, termi- 
nal, just overtopping the leaves; pedicels sparingly scaly; inv. calycled, 
glabrous, of 10-12 lanceolate scales, about equalling the disc ; dise-fl. 
39-40, rays 6-8; achenes nearly glabrous. 
Has. Betw. Sparrbosch and Tradow, Swell., Drege? (Herb. Sd.) 
_ Of this I have only seen leaves and a division of thecorymb. The leaves are 2-24 
inches long, 4~5 lines wide, like those of 8. glastifolius. Fl. yellow. 
_111. 8, lanceus (Ait. Kew. 3, p. 194) ; stem suffruticose, erect, sub- 
simple or panicled at top, glabrous or loosely cobwebbed, striate; leaves 
