Senecio | LXXI. COMPOSITA, 603 
14. S. subscandens Hochst. ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 434 
(1847); O. & H., Le, p. 421; Bot. Mag. t. 6363 (1878). 
GoLunco ALtTo.—A perennial herb ; stems solid, very deiicately 
pulverulent with a glaucous bloom, somewhat woody at the base, 8 to 
15 ft. high and more, climbing upon trees, flowering and pendulous at 
the extremities; leaves glaucous beneath; petioles very brittle, 
frequently purplish, auriculate, the auricles embracing the stem in a 
falcate manner ; flowers ochroleucous ; style-branches thickened at the 
apex, stigmatose-circinate throughout their length ; achenes sub-com- 
pressed, thinly scattered with hairs ; pappus uniseriate. The whole 
plant is rather fleshy, and even small bits of its branches take root 
with the greatest ease. In deep valleys by the Delamboa stream, 
climbing upon palms ; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3691. Scandent. 
By the waters of the Delamboa and Quiquele-quele ; fl. and fr. July 
1856. No. 3692. A weak, climbing undershrub, with glaucous 
foliage. At Quiquele-quele ; fl. and fr. July 1856. No. 3693. A 
stem-leaf, grown in the Lumiar garden near Lisbon in 1862, of a plant 
introduced from this district. No. 36930. 
Huitia.—A bright green climbing herb, with a tuberculous root. 
In wooded rocky parts of Monino, not yet in fl. May 1860. From this 
source the plant was obtained which was grown in Hort. Kew. and 
which was figured in the Botanical Magazine. No. 3690. 
66. OLIGOTHRIX DC. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 452. 
X yridopsis Welw. exO. Hoffm., in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p.33 (1896). 
1. 0. xyridopsis O. Hoffm. /.c. 
Huiiia.—Capitula yellow. In very elevated pastures flooded in the 
rainy season, amidst short grass, in company with Jsoétes and species 
of Xyris in Morro de Lopollo ; fl. April and May 1860. No. 3992. 
67. OTHONNA L. partly ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. ii. p. 453. 
1. 0. coriifolia Sond. ex Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 
p. 333 (1865). 
O. Bainesti O. & H., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 423. 
Huiiia.—An undershrub or shrublet, with the habit of a Lactuca ; 
stems erect, 1 to 2 ft. high, several from the same rootstock ; leaves 
coriaceous, the blade vertical; flowers tubular, yellow. In rock 
thickets near Mumpulla, at an elevation of from 4000 to 4500 ft., 
sporadic ; fr. and few fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3991. 
2. O. huillensis Welw. ms. in Herb. 
An erect, glaucescent, nearly glabrous shrublet, 15 to 4 ft. 
high, in the form of a little tree, rather fleshy and rigid; stem 
sparingly branched, filled as well as the root with a yellow 
resin ; branches alternate, spreading, minutely glandular, densely 
leafy towards the apex, thick, fuscous or somewhat ashy, scarred 
below, the tomentum forming whitish scaly patches at the scars 
of the fallen leaves; leaves alternate, crowded, spathulate- 
oblanceolate, rounded and sometimes minutely cuspidate at the 
apex, attenuate at the petiolate base, 14 to 5 in. long (including 
the petiole of 4 to lin.) by 3 to 1z in. broad; midrib strongly 
marked and pallid from the base, tapering and inconspicuous 
towards the apex; lateral veins very slender; inflorescence 
