390 COMPOSIT# (Harv.) [ Senecio. 
inv. calycled; rays 10-12, yellow, spreading; achenes striate, minutely 
pubescent. DO./1.c.392. Dill. Hort. Hlth. t. 104, f. 124. S. solidagi- 
noides, Berg. Cap.284. Th. Cap. 681. 8S. sessilis, Th. Cap. 682. 8. sola- 
dagineus, Spr. DC. l. e. 435. S. populifolius, Linn. Sp. 1224. 
Var. 8. repandus ; leaves subentire, slightly repand or angular. (Cape Flats, 
Herb. Hook.) 
Has. Cape Flats, Thunberg ! Eckl. Wallich! W.H.H. &c. (Herb. Th., Sd., Hk.) 
A corymbose, pale green bush, 1-2 feet high, much branched, the branches end- 
ing in compound, often much divided, densely many-headed corymbs of yellow 
flowers. Young parts cobwebbed or woolly, older glabrate. Leaves 14-2} inches 
long, 4-14 wide, cuneate at base, with slightly recurved edges, coarsely callous- 
toothed, the teeth broad and shallow. Iny. 2-3 lines long, shorter than the flowers. 
Var. 8. (Hb. Hk.) has the leaves nearly entire, or obsoletely angled and callous- 
denticulate. 
115. S. coleophylins (Turez.! Bull. Mose. xxiv. ii. (1851) p. go); stem 
erect, robust, rigid-herbaceous, glabrous or cobwebbed, branches erect, 
ending in slender few-headed peduncles ; leaves clasping and adnate- 
subdecurrent at base, ovate or oblong-ovate, acute, rigid, sharply and 
distantly toothed, with reflexed margins, spreading or deflexed, glabrous 
and glossy above, white-woolly beneath; heads either solitary or 2-5 
subcorymbose, long-pedicelled, 80~100-fl. or more; rays 10-12 purple; 
inv. amply calycled, of many glabrous or cobwebbed, narrow scales; 
achenes minutely granulated. Walp, Ann. V. p. 337. 
Has. Mts. near Riv. Zondereinde, Zey.! 2953. (Herb. Sd., Hk.) 
In foliage and general habit this nearly resembles S. oederiefolius, but the pedun- 
culoid branches are slender and more nude, and the rays bright purple. Teeth of 
the disc-fi. papillose at the apex. 
116. 8. glastifolins (Linn. f. Suppl. 372); glabrous ; stem suffruticose 
below, erect, branching; leaves oblong or lance-oblong, acute, coarsely 
and unequally toothed, half-clasping, the lower more or less decurrent, 
narrowed towards the base; panicle laxly corymbose, pedicels elongate ; 
heads many-fl., radiate, the rays purple; inv. amply calycled with sub- 
ulate bracteoles, glabrous ; achenes striate, puberulous. .DOC.//. ¢. 408. 
Has. Table Mountain, Thunberg, East of Capetown, Burchell. Betw. Kabeljous 
Riv. and Gamtoos R., and Groenvalei, near Bosch Riy., Drege/ (Herb. Th., D., Sd. Hk-) 
Tall, strong-growing. Leaves 1-3 inches long, 4-1 inch wide, rigid, quite gla- 
brous, when dry punctulate. Panicle many headed, the partial corymbs 3-5 headed. 
‘Inv. campanulate, 4-5 lines diam. and about as long. Rays spreading, numerous, 
purple, fading to dirty whitish in the herbarium, 
§ 6. Micronosi. (Sp. 117-121.) 
117. §. oliganthus (DC. ! 1. c. 390. excl. syn. Th. !); suffruticose, villoso- 
tomentose, subsimple or branched, the branches virgate, closely leafy, 
sub-pedunculoid and corymbiferous at the summit; leaves sessile, ovate 
or shortly oblong, entire or 3-5 toothed, rigid, with subrevolute margins, 
tomentose on one or both sides, faintly 3-nerved; corymbs dense, the 
pedicels tomentose ; inv. sparingly calycled, of s~7 tomentose, membrane- 
edged scales; heads discoid, 7-12-fl,; achenes glabrous. 
Var. a. discolor; upper surface of leaves glabrous, green ; lower tomentose. 
Var. B. concolor (DC.) ; both surfaces of leaves tomentose. 
