8 ICONES EFLANTARUM. 
racemosis 6-9 poll. longis dispositi ; ee angulatus, primum ferru- 
gineo-pubescens, deinde glabrescens ; bracteze }-3 po oll. longze, floribus o 
site ; pedicelli crassi, }—? poll. longi, bracteolas oppositas stray sri alabas- 
trum primum includentes gerentes. Sepala crassa, late ovata, basi cuneata, 
extus ferrugineo-puberula, intus glabra tuberculata, wativatione valvata. 
Petala crassissima, coriacea, biseriata, sessilia, _ subeequalia, late elliptica vel 
obovato-elliptica, obtusa v. obtu puberula; petala 
interiora zestivatione leviter imbricata Reseptaculm conicum, basi antheras 
gerente dilatatum. Stamina numerosa, 3—4-seria ata, imbricata; antherze sessiles, 
oblongo-cuneate, biloculares, eile: “extrorsum Jomelaasdiie’ ie dehiscentes, 
connectivo truncato dilatato recurvato puberulo. Carpella numerosissima ; 
ovariis in toro immersis ; stylo crassiusculo angulato sursum clavatim dilatato ; 
stigma em hexagonum. Ovula solitaria, erecta, L’ructum non vidi.— 
D. Our 
Fig. 1. Torus, bearing the densely crowded styles ts the ng sai cages and the 
stamens upon the a d deesec 2. Stamen, fro = arte . Style and 
stigma with imm ulate ovary. Ab ace 5 ae which the 
sepals and outer nies ‘ave been removed, sdioining the ‘tinbeisstiong ts the j inner r petals. 
Pirate 1011. 
SENECIO TROPHOLIFOLIUS, M/Owan. 
Composit, § SENECIONIDEA. 
Has. South Africa, in grassy and rushy places on mountain sides near 
Givin’ 8 tea P. M‘Owan 
a ca: 
acea, nervis tenuibus obscuris an Scapi solitarii, graciles, stricti, 
erecti, 8-10 poll. alti, 1-2-cephali, bracteis paucis minutis linearibus remotis 
instructi. Involucrum campanulatum, ecalyculatum ; bracteze 10-12, 3 poll. 
longe, discum zequantes, anguste lineares, acuminate, virides, apicibus non 
sphacelatis, marginibus tenuiter membranaceis. Flores radii ad 8, flavi, 
oo apice denticulati. Flores disci 10-20. Achenium glaberri- 
mum, um. Pappus tenuissimus, albus, scaberulus 
A very prett or distinct species, allied, as Mr. M‘ Owsin points out, to 
. paucifolius, and S. oryriafolius, DC., but differs from the former i in 
the peltate aia: "and from the latter in the radiate flowers. The plant is 
living in the Royal Garden ew, specimens having been sent from the 
ham’s Town Botanic Ghitien, The first description of it appeared in an 
article by. Dr. Mueller, ee “VI. Characteristics of an undescribed Senecio 
from South Africa,” which he has favoured us with a copy, and which is, 
de Sate extracted fins the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria.— 
Fig. 1. oo of ra 2. Style- f di 3 i : 
dite. 5. ci yie-arms of ditto. 3. Flower of disk. 4. Style-arms of 
