Senecio. | COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 393 
‘ hire 8. albidus; disc and ray-fl, whitish or very pale. 5S, albidus, E.M./ DC. 
. ¢. 398. 
Has. Summit and East side of Table Mt., Thunberg! Bowie/ Eckl.! W. H. H., 
Wallich! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 4-5 feet high, simple and closely leafy for } of their length; then gradually 
nude, and ending in a spreading panicle. Leaves 3-6 inches long; the lobes 1-2 
inches long, 1-2 lines wide. Inv. campanulate, 4-5 lines diameter. The name 
* grandijflorus” is inappropriate, as many species have larger fi. heads. 
124. S. leucoglossus (Sond.); stem herbaceous, erect, straight, rib- 
striate, scabrous below, glabrous above, simple, ending in a loose, corym- 
bose panicle ; leaves sessile, half-clasping, pinnati-partite, above very 
scabrous with raised points, the rachis and lobes linear, with reflexed 
edges, here and there sharply toothed, lobes few, distant, unequal, acute ; 
corymbs few-headed, pedicels spreading, smooth, nude ; heads many-fl., 
radiate, the rays 10-12, white; inv. amply calycled with many subulate, 
imbricating bracteoles, of 18-20 narrow, subulate, keeled, glabrous 
scales; achenes hispidulous. 
Has. Witsenberg, Zeyher! 943. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Root ligneous. Stems 1-2 ft. high, pale, branched only at the summit. Leaves 
scattered, 1-1} inch long, the lobes 1-1} line wide, acute, very rough with sharp 
points. The rays seem to be white ; by which character and that of the involucre 
this differs from the nearly allied 8. muricatus, Th. 
125. S. muricatus (Th.! Cap. 686) ; stem herbaceous, erect, ribstriate, 
scabrous-pilose throughout, simple, ending in a loose, corymbose panicle ; 
leaves sessile, half-clasping, pinnati-partite, above very rough with 
swollen, jointed hairs, the rachis and lobes linear, entire, with revolute 
margins, acute; lobes few anf distant; pedicels spreading, pilose, nude, 
elongate; heads many-fl., radiate, rays 8-10, yellow; inv. calycled with 
several lanceolate, flat, nerved bracteoles, of 12-13 broad, flat, nerved, 
membrane-edged scales ; achenes puberulous. DC. l. ¢. 435. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! (Herb. Th.) 
Very similar to S. leucoglossus, but with involucre and calycle of much fewer, flatter 
and broader scales ; yellow rays, fide Th.; and a more pilose pubescence. 
126. S. parvifolius (DC.! 1. c. 396); suffruticose? erect, diffusely 
much branched, quite glabrous; branches striate, pale; leaves scattered, 
fleshy, small, irregularly inciso-serrate or pinnatifid with very short 
lobes; fl. branches laxly subcorymbose, the pedicels very long, minutely 
scaly ; inv. calycled, of 12-13 black-tipped, acute scales; disc-fl. 40-50, 
rays 8—10, revolute ; achenes terete, pubescent. 
Has. Modderfonteinsberg, Namaqualand, Drege’ (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A very slender plant, 1-2 ft. high, much branched, with pale, straw-coloured stems 
and branches, which seem ligneous at base. Leaves 4~{ inch long, the lobes 3-1 
line long, toothlike. Pedicels 3-4 inches long, incurved. 
127. S. Carroensis (DC.! 1. c. 396); herbaceous, diffusely branching, 
glabrous ; branches terete ; leaves scattered, sessile, thickish, laxly 
pinnati-partite, not eared at base, the lobes unequal, some short and 
tooth-like, some subulate, acute, entire or denticulate; uppermost leaves 
sometimes linear, entire; fl. branches forked or few-branched, pedicels 
long, slender, with 1-2 minute scales; inv. calycled, of 10-12 glabrous, 
