396 ‘COMPOSITE (Haryv.) [ Senecio. 
with recurved edges, acute, entire; fl. branches partly nude upwards, 
ending in a closely much-branched, many-headed, fastigiate corymb; 
pedicels short, erect, scaly ; inv. calycled, of 7-8 scales, 12-15-fl., shorter 
than the fl.; achenes glabrous. S. pinnatifidus, DC. / 1. c. 397, excl. syn, 
also S. bipinnatus, DC./ 1. ¢., excl. syn. 
Has. Cape Flats, Ecklon! Zey.! 1045, W. H. H. At the 24 Rivers, Drege! (Herb. 
D., Sd., Hk.) 
Very similar to S. bipinnatus in habit and foliage, but with larger fl. heads, and 
more scaly pedicels, &c. Ecklon’s specimens, quoted by DC. under his “ 8. bipinnatus,” 
seem to me identical with Drege’s, quoted under ‘ 8. pinnatifidus” by DC. 
135. S. bipinnatus (Less. ! Syn. 391, non DC.); quite glabrous ; stem 
suffruticose, erect, striate, densely leafy; leaves bipinnati-partite, the 
lobes narrow-linear, with recurved edges, acute, spreading, quite entire; 
fl. branches partially nude upwards, ending in a very compound, dense 
corymb, pedicels fastigiate, erect, scaly; inv. sparingly calycled, cylin- 
drical, of 5-6 oblong, scales, discoid, 4—6-f1., shorter than the flowers; 
achenes glabrous. S. guinqueflorus, DC./ 1. c. 396. Cacalia bipinnata, 
Th.! Cap. 626, excl. syn. Berg. - 
Var. £. triflorus; inv. scales 3! lanceolate-acuminate; fi. three. (Hb. Hk., D.) 
Has. Summit of Table Mt., Thunberg/ W. H. H./ Drakenstein, Pappe! B. Swel- 
lendam, Mundt.! (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
Stems 1-2 ft. high, with long, virgate, densely leafy branches. Leaves 1-2 inches 
long, decompound-pinnatisect, the lobes and lobules not } line wide. Whole plant 
strongly scented. Corymb much divided, level-topped. Inv. scales and flowers 
commonly 5-6; in 8. but three. This is the true ‘“ Cacalia bipinnata” of Thunb. 
136. §. rhyncholenus (DC.! 1. c. 397); glabrous or nearly so, some- 
what viscidulous; stem herbaceous, tall, erect, angle-striate, leafy ; lower 
leaves on long petioles, bipinnati-partite, the upper subsessile, ear-lobed 
at base, pinnatisect, lobes of all linear, 1-nerved, with reflexed edges, 
spreading, subacute, entire or toothed ; fl. branches loosely corymbose, 
few-headed; pedicels sparingly scaly; heads oblong, discoid, 12—15-fl.5 
inv, subcalycled, of 10-12 narrow, scaberulous, taper-pointed scales, as 
long as the disc or longer; achenes striate, sparsely hispidulous oF 
glabrous. : 
onry * caeiaieay to Omsameaba, Drege! Zululand, Gerr.& M‘K., 1057. (Hb. 
Root, according to Mr. Gerrard, annual. Stems 2 ft. high. Leaves 2-3 inches 
long, multi-partite, 2-3-pinnatisect, viscidulous: lobes scarcely 1 line wide. Inv. 
4-5 lines long. Lobes of the corolla barbellate. Ridges of the achenes minutely 
rough, otherwise glabrous. Mr. Gerrard says that the Zulu Caffirs dry this plant 
as a perfume. 
137. S. multicaulis (DC.! 1. c. 398) ; stems many from the crown, 
ascending-erect, leafy at base, laxly leafy, becoming nude upwards, 
loosely panicled at the summit, glabrous, striate ; leaves sessile, the 
lower sparsely pilose, incise-toothed or shortly few-lobed, or pinnatifi 
toward the apex, the upper linear, erect, glabrous, quite entire, all with 
revolute margins, acute ; pedicels long, nearly nude ; heads discoid, 
40—-50-fl.; inv. calycled with many subulate bracteoles, of 12-15 dark. 
tipped, glabrous scales ; achenes puberulous. 4S. mudticaulis, sp. “% 
Hb. Drege, excl. “b,” 
