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minute’ setulosis et interdum parce dentatis dentibus e basibus 
triangularibus longe setosis. Capitula numerosa, subcorymbosa, 
circiter 2-2-5 cm. expansa, pedunculis terminalibus circiter 
1 em. longis, lateralibus usque ad 4 cm. longis superne puberulis. 
Involucri bracteae biseriatae, exteriores herbaceae, patulae, 
circiter 12, lineares, acutae, 1-1-5 cm. longae, margine setuloso, 
interiores ascendentes oblongo-lanceolatae, obtuse acuminatae, 
_ circiter 6 mm. longae et 2 mm. latae, crebre resinoso-striatae. 
Flores radii flavi, fertiles; corollae tubus 2-5 mm. longus, leviter 
pypeccene limbus oblongo- ellipticus, apice breviter bilobatus, 
em. longus, 4 mm. latus, 9nervius. Pappus hirsutus. 
Flores disci ; corollae tubus 2 mm. longus, glaber, lobis triangular- 
ibus. Achaenia complanata, 4-5 mm. longa, ciliato-pubescentia, 
setis rigidis geminatis 2-5 mm. longis coronata. Receptaculi 
bracieae oblongo-oblanceolatae, minute mucronatae, 5:5 mm. 
longae, 1-5 mm. latae, medio striatae, marginibus hyalinis. 
NorrTuern Nicrria. Plains between Hepham and Ropp, 
4600 ft., 5 July, 1921, 2 ft. high, flowers orange, H. V. Lely 
No. ee Ropp, 4600 ft., 19 July, 1921, 3-4 ft. high, H. V. Lely 
No. 4 
ss athymninini, Sch. Bip. ; ¥.T.A. iii. 410; Holland, 391. 
Naraguta, 8 ins. high, flowers yellow, No. 32. 
Distrib —Nigeria to Abyssinia and in South Tropical Africa. 
gris baberka, Hutchinson in Kew Bull. 1913, 180; Holland, 
SMe raguta, 10 ins. high, flowers DEEN yellow, Nos. 13, 59. 
Distrib—Endemic to Northern Nig 
Senecio Hochstetteri, Sch. Bip.; F.T.A. 
Plains between oe and tS ra a 18 ins., flowers 
pale yellow, No. 364 
Distrib—Known hitherto only from the Abyssinian and East 
African mountains, from 5000-8000 ft. 
necio Lelyi, Hutchinson, sp. nov., habitu S. penticosti, 
Hiern (spec. angolensi), sed foliis inferioribus multo minoribus 
achaeniis dense pubescentibus differt. 
Herba (perennis ?) usque ad 50 cm. alta, gracilis; caules 
simplices, paucifoliati, sulcati, glabri, basin versus circiter 3 cm. 
crassi. Folia sessilia, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, basi semiamplexi- 
caulia, 5-8 cm. longa, 6-8 mm. lata, glabra, crebre serrulata. 
Capitula 3—4-corymbosa, pedunculata, circiter 1-5 cm. expansa. 
Involucri bracteae 12-14, oblongo-lanceolatae, subacutae, circiter 
1 cm. longae, 2-5 mm. latae, glabrae, medio crassae, marginibus 
late hyalinis; bracteae exteriores paucae, inferioribus dimidio 
breviores. Flores radii flavi, pauci. Flores disci fere 1 cm. 
longi. Achaenia dense pubescentia. Pappi setae albae, 7 mm. 
longae. 
NortHERN NIGERIA. Plains between Hepham and Ropp, 
4600 ft., 5 July, 1921, H. V. Lely No. 356. 
