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bracts. Involucre | in. long, campanulate, much shorter than the 

 flowers ; bracts 8-10, rigid, imbricated, brownish, lanceolate, 

 slightly cottony. Ligules about 4, bright yellow, oblong. Tubular 

 flowers about 15. Achene glabrous. Pappus ^ in. long, composed 

 of uniform pure white bristles of moderately firm texture. — Forests 

 of the Betsileo country, Baron 209 ! A near ally of S. adenodontus, 

 DC, Prod. vi. 378. 



Senecio erechthitoides, n. sp. — A robust erect annual, with 

 stout stems above a foot long, with a few short spreading crisped 

 brown hairs. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, acute, 3-4 in. long, sub- 

 glabrous, irregularly dentate, green on both sides, the upper 

 amplexicaul and dilated at the base. Heads very numerous, 

 arranged in a lax terminal corymbose panicle ; pedicels slender, 

 i-1 in. long ; bracts minute, lanceolate. Involucre ^ in. long, 

 equalling the disk ; bracts about 15, lanceolate, brown, slightly 

 bristly, and several additional small ones at the base. Flowers 

 about 50 in a head, the outer with very minute oblong yellow 

 ligules. Achene very slender, l-12th in. long, hispidulous, with 

 6-8 distinct ribs. Pappus of very numerous soft white hairs twice 

 as long as the achene. — Betsileo country, flowering in December, 

 Baron 42 ! Gathered also by Lyall. Habit of Erechthites hieraci- 

 folia. 



SoNCHUs PAUCiFLORus, n. sp. — An acaulescent perennial, glabrous 

 in all its parts, with a large fusiform root. Leaves all in a radical 

 rosette, oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, sessile, 3-4 in. long, an inch 

 broad, slightly repand, copiously ciliato- denticulate, green and 

 glabrous on both surfaces. Stems several to a root, wiry, under a 

 foot long, branching low down, with only minute bracts at the 

 forks. Heads few, arranged in lax terminal corymbs on long erect 

 pedicels. Involucre cyhndrical, biserial, \ in. long, ^ in diam. ; 

 inner row of 4 lanceolate greenish brown imbricating glabrous 

 bracts with a pale border ; outer of about as many small unequal 

 ovate bracts. Receptacle flat. Flowers about 6 to a head. Achene 

 nearly I in. long, subcylindrical, pale di^ab, glabrous, narrowed to 

 the apex, with 10 distmct ribs. Pappus J in. long, of very numerous 

 soft white hairs. — Central Madagascar, Br. Parker ! Nearly aUied 

 to S. rarifolius, Oliver and Hiern, of Tropical Africa. 



Wahlenbergia Bojeri, A. DC. — Central Madagascar, Parker 131 ! 

 Common in the open country throughout Betsileo-land, flowering 

 in December and January. Flower white. Baron 113 ! 



Lobelia nataleiisis, A. DC. — Central Madagascar, Dr. Parker ! 

 Native name Anandaingo. Also a native of Zambesi-land and 

 Natal. 



Philippia Parkeri, n. sp. — A low shrub, with slender woody 

 branches, densely clothed with spreading white bristles, some of 

 which are tipped with a gland. Leaves in contiguous whorls of 

 3-4, spreading, sessile, falcate, oblanceolate, ^lin. long, grey-green, 

 rugose, with revolute edges and gland-tipped bristles. Flowers 

 3-6 in terminal umbels; pedicels very short. Sepals 4, oblong- 

 lanceolate, united at the base, densely bristly, | lin. long. Corolla 

 campanulate, pilose, not longer than the sepals, its erect lobes 



