600 LXXI, COMPOSITE. [Senecio 
smallest, scarious and often lacerate-ciliolate at the tip, extend- 
ing to the base of the capitula; flowers yellow ; involucral scales 
about 15, narrowly oblong or sublinear, united at the base and 
some of them much higher wp, pale yellowish-green, with scarious 
margins, darker near the scarious lacerate-ciliolate tips, sub- 
uniseriate, about } in. long, imbricate ; female florets few, exterior, 
fertile; the ligula + in. long, very shortly lobed at the apex; the 
style shortly cleft; hermaphrodite florets numerous, discoid, 
7s in. long, fertile; the corolla shortly 5-lobed; anthers at 
length exserted, shortly appendaged at the apex, their bases 
caudate; the style-branches at length exserted, narrow, truncate, 
exappendiculate ; achenes (young) subterete, glabrous ; the pappus 
copious, white, setose, 1 in. long; the sete pauciseriate, minutely 
seabrid. 
HvILta.—In swampy willow-beds at the banks of the river 
Quipumpunbime, Humpata ; fl. Jan. and March 1860. No. 3676. 
This is nearly related to S. longipedunculata Volkens, from the 
Transvaal Republic, collected by Dr. F. Wilms, nn. 800 and 800d. 
9. 8. strictifolius Hiern, sp. n. 
An annual, erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, nearly glabrous; stem 
more or less angular, sulcate-costate, virgate, simple and purplish 
below, corymbosely branched and paler towards the apex at the 
inflorescence, leafy ; leaves alternate, suberect, narrowly elliptic- 
oblong, rather obtuse at the mucronulate apex, attenuate towards 
the sessile or subsessile somewhat clasping base, scarcely decurrent, 
pale, yellowish-green on both faces, rigidly herbaceous, slightly 
puberulous with a deciduous or nearly obsolete down, cartilaginous- 
serrulate and narrowly revolute on the margin, 2 to 3 in. long 
by 3 to 3 in. broad ; capitula heterogamous, radiate, campanulate, 
calyculate, + in. long, numerous, glabrous, on slender bracteate 
pedicels ranging up to ? in. long, arranged in flat-topped terminal 
rather lax cymes of 3 to 4 in. in diameter; flowers yellow; caly- 
culous consisting of a few narrow bracts like the uppermost bracts 
on the pedicels; involucral scales uniseriate, about 13, linear-oval, 
about } in. long, dark-reddish at each end, scarious on the margin ; 
female florets marginal, uniseriate, radiate, about 12, fertile; the 
ligule oblong, minutely lobed at the apex, } in. long; disk-florets 
about 29, hermaphrodite tubular, + in. long; the corolla thin, 
short 5-lobed; the anthers partly exserted, shortly appendaged 
at the apex, obtuse and exappendiculate at the base; style- 
branches exserted, rather short, slender, obtuse, exappendiculate ; 
ovary glabrous, smooth, with a thin whitish ring round the apex 
from which arises the deciduous rigid whitish rather copious erect 
setose pappus; the sete minutely barbellate, about } in. long; 
receptacle narrow, somewhat papillose. 
Hvii_ta.—In marshy places along streams near Lopollo and at the 
lake of Ivantila ; fl. 14 March 1860. No. 3675. 
Nearly related to S. Serra Sond., non Schweinf. ; it differs by more 
numerous florets and smaller foliage, etc. 
