8 ON SENECIO SPATHULJEFOLIUS DC. 



elliptico-lanceolatis obtusis v. obtuse subacuminatis supra nitidis 

 costa impressis nervis inconspicuis subtus pallentibus costa promi- 

 nula venis tenuibus vix conspicuis 1^ poll, longis 5-B lin. latis 

 brevissime petiolatis, cymis tcrminalibus necuon ex axillis superi- 

 oribus oriundis pancifloris, floribus brevissime pedicellatis, calycis 

 subinfuudibularis tubo minute ruguloso v. pustulate 3-lineali lobis 

 minutis ad margincm truncatum recurvum fere reductis, petalis 

 obovatis pellucido-punctatis calycem parum superantibus liberis, 

 staminibus petalis longioribus a stylo superatis. 



In ins Hai-nan, j)rope Wo-sbi, d. 31 Oct. 1882, leg. rev. B. C. 

 Henry. (Herb, propr. n. 222G3). 



Juxta E. Championi Bentb. ! collocanda, qu£e vero discedit 

 foliis minoribus, distinctius veuosis, calycibusque duplo minoribus 

 basi exquisitius attenuatis. 



4. Eugenia (Syzygium) myrsinifolia. — Prutex 12-pedalis, 

 glaberrimus, ramis teretibus, ramulis compressis, foliis coriaceis 

 oblongis obtusis basi in petiolum 1\ lin. longum subangustatis 

 utrinque opacis subtus pallidioribus costa supra impressa subtus 

 prominente venis pennatis subtus magis conspicuis tenuibus densi- 

 usculis vena intramarginali unitis 3-pollicaribus 7-10 lin. latis, 

 cymis terminalibus tricbotomis densis fastigiatis, pedicellis | lin. 

 longis, calycis tubo obconico 2 lin. alto margine truncato, petalis 

 calyptratim secedentibus, genitalibus e calyce longe exsertis, bacca 

 ovoidea 4 lin. diametro limbo calycino truncato conspicue coronata. 



In tcrritorio indigenarum ins. Hai-nan, Lai dictorum, d. 21 

 Nov. 1882, leg. rev. B. G. Henry. (Herb, propr. n. 22277). 



Aftiuis Fj. cuneatm Wall. ! sed differt foliis duplo minoribus, 

 cymis multifloris, fastigiatis. Fructus edulis. 



ON SENECIO SPATHUL.EFOLIUS DC. 



By J. G. Bakee, F.E.S. 



My own impression with regard to Senecio spathulqfolius, if I 

 may be excused for expressing a difference from the views of two 

 such high authorities as Professor Babington and Sir J. D. Hooker, 

 is that the Holyhead plant is substantially the Senecio spathuhpfolius 

 of DeCandolle, but that it is only a variety of S.-campestris, with the 

 characters that Sir J. D. Hooker has assigned to it in placing it as 

 such. Take the two plants in combination, and they extend over 

 a geographical area reaching from Britain and Scandinavia in the 

 north-west, through Central Europe to Spain, Italy, Croatia, 

 Servia, and Transylvania, and crossing the Ural through the 

 whole breadth of Siberia to Manchuria and Kamschatka. This 

 aggregate is represented in the Kew Herbarium by two large 

 bundles, containing specimens of upwards of fifty different gather- 

 ings from various countries through this wide area, and in 

 attempting to sort out the spathuUifuliHs from the caiiipcstris I have 

 utterly failed in drawing any clear line of demarcation between the 

 two. The types of the two are characterised excellently in Koch's 

 Synopsis, but between campestris as figured in ' English Botany ' 



