602 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [ Senecio 
rently all fertile; corolla dilated into a small hemisphere at the 
base, slightly and gradually widened upwards, shortly 5-cleft at 
the apex, the lobes lanceolate; anthers included in the corolla, 
rather exceeding its tube, acute and appendaged at the apex, 
obtuse and not appendaged at the base; style-branches about 
equalling the anthers, short, truncate, stigmatose at the apex; 
achenes (young) oblong, unequally ribbed, glabrous, ;/; in. long, 
with an oval cartilaginous ring at the apex from which arises the 
white setose pappus ; the sete very slender, barbellate, erect, about 
1 in. long, subuniseriate, rather copious. 
HviLia.—In the more elevated pastures in Morro de Lopollo, in 
the direction of Empalanca ; fl. Dec. 1859 and March 1860. No. 3574. 
12. S. uvens Hiern, sp. n. 
A glaucous-green very nearly glabrous somewhat fleshy decum- 
bent herb, 7 to 9 in. high; root creeping, branched; stems 
numerous, simple or nearly so, prostrate for half their length or 
more, the flowering stems 13 to 17 in. long, secundly leafy 
throughout the prostrate portion, the erect part scapelike 6 to 8 in. 
long bracteate and nearly leafless; leaves alternate, crowded, 
oblong, obtuse, sessile, obscurely vesicular-rugulose, uninerved, 
11 to 2in. long by } to } in. broad; margins entire, narrowly 
revolute; capitula homogamous, discoid, broadly campanulate, 
dilated around the apex, } to = in. long and broad, solitary, 
terminal, erect; bracts narrow, }+ to #in. long, the upper ones 
successively smaller and less distant; involucre calyculate with 
a few scales similar to the uppermost bracts ; involucral scales 
about 20, sublinear, uniseriate, inserted around the dilated recep- 
tacle, 2 to 2 in. long, not quite glabrous on the back, pointed at 
the apex with fuscous tips, the lateral margins scarious and over- 
lapping ; flowers numerous, yellow, about } in. long or rather 
longer, all tubular, hermaphrodite ; corolla 2 to 2 in. long, shortly 
5-lobed ; anthers included, obtuse and exappendiculate at both 
ends; style-branches about 4, in. long, narrow, puberulous- 
stigmatose, terminated with very narrow exserted appendages ; 
achenes glabrous, 10-ribbed, narrowly ovoid-oblong, rather thicker 
about the middle, 4 in. long, with a ring around the apex from 
which arises the white copious setose pappus; the sete very 
slender, + in. long, minutely setulose, numerous, subuniseriate ; 
receptacle somewhat concave, + to } in. in diameter, naked. 
Huriia.—In swampy places at the river Cacolovar, between 
Ivantila and Quilengues ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860; also by the river at 
Lopollo. No. 3670. 
13. §. multicorymbosus Klatt in Ann. Nat. Hist. Hofmus. 
Wien, vii. p. 103 (1892); O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xii. p. 32. 
GoLunco ALTo.—A small tree, candelabriform, 10 to 12 ft. high; 
branches patent, curving upwards towards the apex and there bearing 
fascicles of leaves and from their centre flowering panicles 1 to 2} ft. 
long ; flowers yellow, after the fashion of the genus. At the damp 
outskirts of forests between Cambondo and N-delle, growing in 
groups; fl. and fr. Oct. 1854. No. 3689. 
