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NEW NATAL PLANTS. 



By J. Medley Wood and M. S. Evans. 



(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1899, p. 255.) 



[Mr. J. M. Wood's Report of the Natal Botanic Gardens for 

 1900, received by us on March 30th, contains the following de- 

 scriptions of new species, with the prefatory note here reproduced. 

 Up to the time of our going to press, no issue of the Kew Bulletin 

 has appeared since October, 1899, so the species in question were 

 first published in the Report, whence they must be cited. To 

 obviate the manifest inconvenience attendant upon publication of 

 novelties in a purely local report, we have thought it well to 

 reprint the descriptions, a continuation, as the authors state, of 

 those published in this Journal ; for convenience of citation we 

 have indicated, in square brackets, the original paging of the 

 Report. — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



In my Annual Report for 1899, I repeated the descriptions of 

 the third decade of new Natal plants described by Mr. M. S. Evans 

 and myself, and published at home in the Journal of Botany. It 

 was intended to publish a fourth decade, but the outbreak of war 

 and press of other business prevented our obtaining specimens from 

 the upper districts. We therefore determined to send what re- 

 mained for publication in the Kew Bulletin, and not to continue the 

 decades at present. The following descriptions were therefore sent 

 for pubUcation some months ago, and may possibly appear before 

 this Report is pubUshed ; but, as few people in Natal see that publi- 

 cation, I think it best to include them in this Report, especially as 

 all the other species have already appeared in former Reports. 



Senecio tugelensis Wood & Evans. Annual, herbaceous, 

 erect, stems simple, striate, glabrous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, lower ones tapering to a winged 

 amplexicaul petiole, upper ones amplexicaul, margins closely serrate, 

 glabrous, purple beneath. Heads solitary, or 2-3 on somewhat 

 elongated glabrous peduncles bearing 2-3 scattered lanceolate bracts, 

 radiate, calycled with 6-7 linear bracteoles. Involucre of 12-14 

 glabrous scales. Ray florets 12-14 ; 4-5-Hned, yellow ; disc florets 

 60-80. Achenes (unripe) glabrous. 



Habitat: Natal; sources of Tngela, summit of Drakensberg, 

 near Mont aux Sources; 10-11,000 feet altitude. March, 1898. 

 M. S, Evans, No. 750. 



The whole plant 6-14 inches high ; leaves 1-2 inches long, 

 f-| inch wide. Involucral scales f inch long. Heads spreading 

 to 1 inch diameter. 



Senecio seminivea Wood & Evans. Suffruticose, ascending, 

 branches curved, glabrescent below, glandular hairy in upper 

 portion. Leaves crowded, alternate, sessile, half amplexicaul, 

 pinnate, 5-7 lobes on each side, young ones very densely white 

 woolly tomentose, mature one subglabrous, leaflets simple, entire 



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