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n-nervecl on the back, witli sometimes few or several small bracteole« 

 below the iu vol acre. Eeceptacle flat or convex, naked, pitted or 

 Ihiibrillate, Corollas of 2 flowers ligulate, the ligules elongate, 

 spreading, or very small and revolute, or scarcely conspicuous ; corollas 

 of ^ flowers regular, tubular, 5-fid. Anther-bases obtuse, or auricled, 

 or minutely tailed. Style-arms of ^ flowers recurved ; tips truncate, 

 penicillate, rarely rounded or with a short narrow point. Pappus-hairs 

 copious or sparse, soft, usually white, smooth, scabrid or barbellate. 

 Achenes subterete or the outer dorsally compressed, 5-10-ribbed. — 

 DiSTRiu. Chiefly in temperate climates and in mountains of the Tropics ; 

 species about OUO. 



Leases not clotlied beneath with white or grey cottony 

 tomentum. 



Leaves pinuatifid ; ligules 6-10 1. S. icnuifoUus. 



Leaves oblong-obovaie ; ligules 3 2. S. hcwrciisis. 



Leaves clothed beneath with white or grey cottony touientum. 

 Heads bracteolate. 



Pappus-bairs slender. 



Suffruticose; leaves rhomboid or ovate 3. S. Erlgetoorthti. 



Herbaceous; leaves liuear-obiong 4. S. Dahellii. 



Pappus paleaceous 5. <S. Graliami. 



Heads ebracteolate. 



Pappus slender, not paleaceous ; achenes glabrous 0. <S. Gibson/. 



Pappus ; achenes hairy 7. S. helyaumensis. 



1. Senecio tenuifolius. Barm. FJ. Lid. (1768) t. 60, f. 4. Annual, 

 slender, herbaceous, 6-18 in. high, usually much branched, glabrous. 

 Leaves sessile, pinnatifid or sub-2-pinnatifld; segments slender, spreading, 

 obtuse. Heads ^-j\ in. in diam., few, in divaricating corymbs, 

 rayed ; peduncles slender, glabrous, furnished witii a few scattered 

 acute bracts. Invol.-bracts 10-13, oblanceolate, subequal, g-i in. long, 

 acute or acuminate, with broad scarious margins and yellowish nerves, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Ligules 6-10. Pappus copious, yellowish, as 

 long as the achenes. Achenes of the ray-flowers usually abortive, 

 elongate, finely pubescent or glabrous, those of the disk-flowers narrowed 

 at the base, g in. long, faintly ribbed, hairy with white hairs on the ribs, 

 brown. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 345 ; AYoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1898) p. 650 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prodr. v. 6, part 2, p. 501. Senecio 

 multijidus, Willd. Sp. PI. V. 3 (1800) p. 1986 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 

 p. 198. Doruniciuii tenuifoliam, Wight, Icon. t. 1129. — Flowers : 

 Sept.-Oct. 



S. M. Country : Badami, Coo/ccl, Wuodrovj ; Belgaum hills, Eitchic, 388 1— Distrib. 

 India (W. Peninsula); Java. 



2. Senecio hewrensis, Hoolc f. Fl B. I. v. 3 (1881) p. 346. A 

 small herbaceous annual 3-12 in. high. Lower leaves 1-1 j by \-tt in., 

 oblong or somewhat obovate, subobtuse, petioled, coarsely toothed or 

 pinnatisect, more or less hairy and ciliate ; cauline leaves narrower, 

 linear, acute or subobtuse, sessile or nearly so, auricled at the base, 

 more or less hairy. Heads iu lax corymbose cymes, yellow ; peduncles 

 capillary, long. Invol.-bracts about 10, linear-oblong or somewhat 

 oblanceolate, acuminate, -g— ^ in. long, pubescent. Corollas yellow ; 

 ligules 3 in each head, broadly spathulate, short, A'eined. Pappus as 

 lung as the achenes, copiotis, pale-vellowi->h. Achenes xV~i ^^- It-^'ig^ 



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