Senecio. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 397 
Has. Ezelsbank, 3-4000 f., Drege/_ (Herb. Sond.) 
Root ligneous. Stems bent at base, 1-14 ft. high, slender, pale, striate. Lower 
leaves close, 1-1} in. long, their lobes in 2-3 pair, 1-3 lines long; upper leaves few, 
very erect, 1-1} inch long, 4 line wide. Panicle subeorymbose. Drege’s specimens 
marked “b” (in Hb. Hk.) have radiate heads, and seem to belong to S. wmbellatus. 
138. S. paniculatus (Berg. Cap. 277); suffruticose, glabrous or nearly 
so; branches virgate, leafy below, pedunculoid above and loosely corym- 
bose or panicled ; leaves polymorphous, slender, elongate, with strongly 
revolute margins, either all quite entire or some entire and some sparingly 
pinnati-partite, or all pinnati-partite, with few and distant, entire or 
toothed lobes; corymb diffuse, few-headed, simple or branched, the 
pedicels long and scaly ; heads discoid, many-fl.; inv. amply calycled 
with many subulate bracteoles, of 16-24 narrow, tapering, dark-tipped 
scales ; achenes hispidulous. 
Var, a. peucedanifolius; leaves all pinnati-partite, often toothed at base, the lobes 
in few pair, entire or few-toothed. S. peucedanifolius, Linn. f. DC.1.c. 397. Jacobea 
pewedanifolia, Th.! Cap. 677. Cacalia peuced., Jacq. Ie. var. 581. Zey.! 944. 
Var. 8. intermedius ; leaves some quite entire, linear-elongate ; some with a few 
short lateral lobes ; some pinnati-partite, with long lobes. Zey.! 2969. 
Vas. y. reclinatus ; usually more robust, with larger fl. heads, but variable; leaves 
all linear-elongate, entire or the revolute margins toothed. 8S, reclinatus, Linn. f. 
DC. 1. c. 398. L’ Her. Stirp. Nov. t. 5. 8. graminifolius, Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 180. 8S. 
Chrysocoma, Meerb. Ic. t. 156. Jacob. reclinata, Th.! Cap. 675. J. bidentata, Th.! 
Cap. 676. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Var. a. Clanw., Worcester and Swellendam, £. ¢ Z./ 
Drakenstein and Paarl, Drege/- Banghoek, W.H.H. Winterhoek, Tulbagh, Pappe! 
8. Riv. Zondereinde, Zey.! ‘y. Districts of Uitenhage and Albany, Drege/ E. ¢ Z.? 
P. McOwan! &e. (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
Very variable in foliage and in the size of the fl. heads, but var. 8. seems com- 
pletely intermediate in character between a. and y. Stem 2-3 ft. high, erect or 
diffuse, very pale, terete, with raised strie, closely leafy below. Leaves 2-3 inches 
long or more, 1 line wide, the lobes, when present, equally narrow, all with strongly 
revolute margins and glabrous. Infl. widely spreading. Heads from 3 to 7 lines 
long, 3-6 lines diameter. Pedicels 1-3 inches long. Calycle 2~3-seriate, of subulate 
or lanceolate bracteoles. Except for the discoid heads it is very similar to S. umbellatus. 
§ 8. Lepropnynu. (Sp. 139-155.) 
139. S, angustifolius (Willd. Sp. 3. p. 1973); suffruticose, glabrous ; 
branches erect, slender, angle-striate,. sparsely leafy ; leaves narrow- 
linear, with recurved edges, quite entire, mucronate ; infl. loosely 
panicled or subcorymbose, pedicels long, slightly scaly ; heads discoid, 
30-40-fl. ; inv. sparingly calycled, of 12-14 narrow, glabrous scales ; 
achenes puberulous. DC.l.c. 399. Jacobea angustifolia, Th.! Cap. 675. 
Has. Cape, Thunbery! Worcester, EZ. ¢ Z.! Riv. Zondereinde, Zey.! 2970. 
Zeederberg, Drege (fide DC.) Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
A much-branched half-shrub, 1-2 ft. high, woody at base, with many slender, 
pale, rigid, erect branches. Leaves 1-1} in. long, not } line diam. Corymbs 3-5 
headed, the pedicels 1-1} in. long. Inv. pale, shorter than the fl., strongly reflexed 
in age. Calycle of very small, dark-tipped bracteoles, few or several. 
140. S. niveus (Less.! Syn. 392) ; suffruticose, slender, cano-tomen- 
tose, branching, branches white-woolly, corymbiferous ; leaves sessile, 
linear, blunt, with revolute margins, fleshy, at first albo-tomentose, 
