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rlioiiiboid-ovate, acute, coarsely and irregularly tootlied, iniiiulely 

 araneo-pubescent, glabrous, or miuutely scabrous above, white-tomeutose 

 between the nerves beneath, base suddenly tapering into the petiole ; 

 nerves broad, green, conspicuous, glabrous ; petioles variable in length, 

 the lower often as long as the leaf-blade, usually with lanceolate auricles 

 at or a little above the base. Heads yellow, laxly subcorymbose, 

 |-g in. in diam. ; bracteoles linear-subulate ; peduncles elongate, slender, 

 furnished with a few scattered linear bracts ; flowers of the ray ligulate, 

 usually sterile, the throat hairy within, ligules 10-13, sometimes (in well 

 developed heads) reaching ^ in. long by -^^ in. broad, the apex rounded, 

 shortly 3-toothed. Invol.-bracts 12-24, pubescent, ^—^ in. long, con- 

 nate for about | of the way up from the base, obovate-oblong, caudate- 

 acuminate. Style-arms ol: ^ flowers truncate, penicillate. Pappus of 

 ray-flowers 0, of the disk-flowers slightly longer than the achenes, 

 dilated and paleaceous at the base, setaceous above, dirty-white or 

 yellowish. Achenes -^ in. long, ribbed, scabrid. Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 650. Seaecio reticulatus, C. B. Clarke, 

 Comp. Ind. p. 199 {not of DC. v. 6, p. 431). Doronicum reticulatam, 

 Wight, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 7 (1847) p. 156 ; Icon. 1. 1151, B ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 130. — Flowers : Aug.-Dec. Veen. SonU. 



Dalzell & Gibson (Bo. Fl. p. 130) state that the achenes are without 

 pappus, a mistake which has arisen from these authors having in- 

 completely quoted Wight's description (Icon. t. 1151, B) from which 

 the description in their ' Bombay Flora ' has been taken. AVight says 

 that the ray-Jfowers have no pappus, but afterwards goes on to describe 

 the paleaceous pappus of the dUk-JIotvers. Dalzell & Gibson, in quoting 

 Wight, stopped at the end of the description of the pappus of the ray- 

 flowers, and have therefore made it appear that the pappus is altogether 

 wanting. (See also Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 348, under Senecio 

 helgaumensis.) 



KoNKAN : Laivl; island of Karanja, Dal-ell 4' G-ibson. Deccan: Khandala, 

 Cooke !, Woodrow ! ; Mahableshwar,' Cooke ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula, 

 E,ajputana). 



6. Senecio Gibsoni, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3 (1881) p. 347. Herba- 

 ceous, erect, much-branched, 1-2 ft. high ; stem and branches slender, 

 glabrous or scaberulous, striate. Leaves sessile or petioled, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate or subrhomboid, acute, apiculate, glabrous or scaberulous above, 

 grey with appressed cottony tomentum beneath, the margins irregularly 

 toothed or subentire ; nerves prominent beneath; petioles short, auricled. 

 Heads yellow, ebracteolate, laxly and dichotomously corymbose; peduncles 

 slender, piibescent, with scattered linear bracts. Invol.-bracts 15-18, 

 oblong-lanceolate or obovate, acuminate or very acute, g-^ in. long, 

 pubescent and with scarious margins. Ligules 8-10, linear-oblong, | by 

 yL in., 3-toothed at the apex. Style-arms of ^ flowers truncate, 

 ])eiiicillate. Pappus-hairs unequal, slender, rigid, scabrid, not at all 

 paleaceous, ■white or yellowish. Achenes ^-^ in. long, obconic, ribbed, 

 glabrous. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 650. 



Eare. Konkax : Law !, Lambert ! Deccan : Poona, Woodrow ! 



7. Senecio belgaumensis, C.B. Clarice, Comp. /;uZ. (1876) p. 200. 

 Annual, erect, herbaceous, 1-2| ft. high, branched ; stems and branches 

 usually pubescent. Leaves I|-3 by |-2 in., petioled, rhomboid-ovate, 



