Senecio. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 389 
stem-clasping and shortly adnate-decurrent at base, oblongo-lanceolate 
or lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, glabrous, with subrecurved margins, 
either sharply serrate, serrulate or subentire, the upper smaller and more 
acute ; corymb compound, crowded, many-headed, the pedicels short, 
scaly ; inv. calycled, glabrous, of 20 or more narrow-subulate scales ; 
rays 10-12, shorter than the inv.; dise-fl. 40-50; achenes striate, gla- 
brous. Jacq. Schoenbr. t. 304. DC.!l.c. 394. S. marginatus, Th.! Cap. 
p. 680, ex pte. majori. 
Var. a, serratus ; leaves more or less sharply serrate. Vars. B, y, ¢, DC. l. c. 
Var, 8. subinteger (DC.) ; leaves nearly entire. S. undulatus, Th.! Cap. p. 680. 
Has. Cape Flats, and eastward through Swellendam to Uitenhage and Albany. 
(Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem strong, 3-4 ft. high, chiefly branched at the summit. Young parts often 
cobwebbed with deciduous wool. Leaves 3-5 inches long, 7-1} in. broad, the upper 
gradually smaller. Dentition of the margin very inconstant; the var. with nearly 
entire leaves is frequent. 
112. S. scoparius (Harv.); stem straight, erect, glabrous, striate, 
simple or corymbose at summit; leaves scattered, subsessile, subcune- 
ate at base, ovate or ovato-lanceolate, acute, calloso-serrulate, netted- 
veined, quite glabrous or the young ones cobwebbed, the upper smaller 
and narrower; corymb very compound, flat-topped (broom-like), many- 
headed, the pedicels long, filiform, sparsely scaly ; inv. minutely caly- 
cled, glabrous, of 10-13 bluntish, keeled scales, shorter than the disc; 
rays 5-6, yellow, spreading ; disc-fl. about 20;. achenes hispidulous. 
Has. Kreili’s Country, about old Kraals, H. Bowker, 388, Mrs. F. W. Barber, 
25. (Herb. D.) 
Stem 2-3 ft. high, very straight, ending in a much-branched, broom-like corymb, 
which is 4-6 inches diameter, compact and fiat-topped. Leaves 1}—2 inches long, 
4-1 inch wide, the lowest quite sessile and bluntly wedge-shaped or rounded at 
base, the uppermost often on 1 line long petioles, cuneate ; under surface rather 
paler and closely netted. Pedicels 1-2 inches long. Heads 3 lines long, and equally 
wide. Rays 3 lines long, 
113. S. Serra (Sond. in Linn. 23, p. 68); stem herbaceous, erect, 
ribbed and furrowed, glabrous, virgate, corymboso-paniculate at the 
apex; cauline leaves oblongo-lanceolate, acute, cartilagineo-serrulate, 
tapering and entire at base, decurrent in a very narrow (or obsolete) 
entire stem-wing, the uppermost often auricled ; corymb compound, 
flat-topped, the pedicels scaly ; inv. of 10-12 scales, glabrous, calycled, 
the scales dark-tipped; disc-fl. about 20, rays 6-7; achenes glabrous. 
Has. Natal, Gueinzius/ 358. (Herb. Sd., Hk.) 3 
2-3 feet (or perhaps more) in height. Lower leaves not seen. Cauline leaves 
3-5 inches long, }-% inch wide, coriaceous, rigid, closely and finely serrulate. The 
wings of the stem are very narrow and sometimes obsolete. Inv. 2 lines long. 
114. §. halimifolius (Linn. Sp.1223); shrubby, erect, glaucous, more 
or less cobwebbed with woolly hairs; branches angular, ribbed, virgate, 
closely leafy; leaves sessile, slightly ear-clasping at base, cuneate-obovate 
or oblong, subobtuse, coarsely toothed, not conspicuously veiny, thick- 
ish, the adult glabrous, the younger cobwebbed ; corymb compound, 
densely many-headed ; pedicels short, scaly ; heads radiate, 30-40-f1.; 
