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Fig. 1, Plant about natural size ; 2, Flower; 3, Flower, petals removed; 4, 

 Corolla opened ; 5, Stamen; 6, Section through ovary : all enlarged. 



PLATE 95 



SENECIO TAMOIDES, DC. 

 Natural Order, COMPOSITE. 



A climber with yellow flowers. Stems terete, glabrous and shining, copiously 

 branching. Leaves alternate, petiolate, exstipulate, triangular in general outline, 

 subcordate at base, acute at apex, unequally and coarsely toothed, with rounded 

 interspaces, the lobules 2 to 5 on each side, usually broadly triangular, smaller 

 upwards ; veins pinnate, prominent and finely pubescent beneath ; lamina dark 

 green above, lighter and shining beneath, 1^ to 3 inches long and wide. Petioles 

 usually curved, channelled above, 1 to 2 inches long. Inflorescence in loose many 

 flowered corymbs, which are terminal on the branches. Pedicels slender, f to 1-| 

 inches long. Involucre of 5-8 scales which are connate in a cylindrical tube for 

 nearly their whole length, acute ami minutely dark tipped at apex and with glan- 

 dular swellings at base, 3-3J lines long. Ray florets 3-6, usually 5, unilabiate, 

 spreading, the ray oblong, 3-5 lined, equalling involucre. Style arms slender 

 spreading. Stamens O. Disk florets tubular, 5-toothed, their styles strongly re- 

 curved. Pappus copious, bristly, serrate, white. Anthers linear, tipped with an 

 ovate, membranous appendage Achens cylindrical, glabrous. 



Habitat : NATAL : Coast and midlands common ; without locality or date, 

 Gerrard and McKen, 331 ? Inanda, Wood 573. 



Drawn and described from specimens gathered near Durban, May, 1899. 



A wide climbing plant bearing large trusses of bright yellow flowers. It 

 flowers about May and remains in flower for some weeks during which time it is 

 a very conspicuous object. The flowers are frequently attacked by an insect 

 which forms a gall within the flower head, this gall is firmly seated on the recep- 

 tacle, terete in section, tapering to each end, green and quite glabrous, much 

 longer than the head, and each contains a single larva. 



Fig. 1 , Flowering branch, natural size ; 2, Flower head ; 3, Disk floret ; 4, 

 Staminal tube opened; 5, Bay floret; 6, Pappus bristle; all enlarged. 



PLATE 96 



MONSONIA BIFLORA, DC. 

 Natural Order, GERANIACE.E. 



Annual, much branched. Stem half woody, short, copiously branching from 

 just above the base. Branches ramifying in all directions, and procumbent, finely 

 pubescent, occasionally with a few pilose hairs. Leaves crowded together at the 

 nodes, or in false whorls, stipulate, oblong to linear-oblong, serrate, crenate or 

 irregularly toothed, h spid ; i to 1^ inches long, 1J to 4 lines wide Petiole 

 slender, ]i to 6 lines long. Stipules several together, pungent, pilose; :!-4 lines 

 long. Peduncles axillary and terminal, solitary, or two on a common peduncle, in 

 our specimens usually 1 -flowered, and without bracteoles in centre of peduncle, 

 hispid ; f to 1 inches long. Sepals 5, linear-oblong, or subspathulate, acuminate 

 and tipped with a long slender bristle, externally pilose ; 3 lines long, 

 free, hypogynous, imbricate, delicate in texture, creamy white with dark veins, one. 



