NOTE ON ERITR1CHIUM GUILIELMI. 243 
13 scales ; ray-flowers yellow, about twice as long as those of the 
disk ; achenes glabrous. — On Meadows at Grahamstown {Pet. WOican y 
Esq., M.J.) 
The only specimen transmitted is about a span long, and with- 
out root, which probably will prove tuberous. Petioles 1-2 inches 
long, slender; leaves measuring about one inch, without distinct 
teeth ; the point of insertion about one-third above the base ; neither 
nerves nor veins prominent. Involucre 3-4 lines long. Kay-flowers 
about 7. Disk-flowers about 20, hardly above 2 lines long, a little 
exceeding the copious and very tender bristles of the white pappus. 
Kpe fruit not seen on this occasion. 
S. paucifolius, to which Mr. M'Owan justly compares his plant, 
though somewhat resembling it in habit, assumes by its sessile leaves 
of mostly ovate shape a very different appearance ; the nerves, more- 
over, are not radiate. The flower-heads of both bear a great resem- 
ifc 
lifolii 
if< 
a pleiocephalous inflorescence in a lesser number of scales constituting 
the involucre, in the absence of ligular flowers and in hispidulous 
achenes. On this occasion the writer would remark that amongst the 
extensive series of South African Senecios, diagnostically defined by 
Professor Harvey, occurs one named ft leucoglossus by Dr. Sonder. 
The specific name is, however, preoccupied by a "West Australian 
Plant, described in the second volume of the Fragm. Phytogr. Austr., 
P- 15. The name of the homonymous South African plant might 
thus be altered into S. actinoleucus. 
NOTE ON ERITRICHIUM GUILIELMI, A. Gray. 
By Henry. F. Hance, Ph.D., etc. 
Professor Miquel (Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 9<5), after a comparison with 
Wian specimens of E. radicans, A. DC, decides that these plants 
a "> not distinct. A similar comparison certainly leads me to an oppo- 
sit e opinion. E. Guilielmi is more robust, has a smootlush stem, 
minutely pubescent, wide ovate and often cordate leaves, many-flowered, 
