PLATE 382. 



SENBCIO DELTOIDEUS, Less. (Fl. Cap. Vol III., p. 403.) 

 Natural Order, COMPOSITE. 



A much branched slender climber, bearing corymbs of yellow flowers. Stem 

 and branches angular or ribbed, green, wide climbing, glabrous. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petiolate, stipulate, varying much both in shape and size on the same plant, 

 the larger ones triangular and hastate-acuminate, the medium and smaller ones, 

 rounded or tapering to the petiole, neither hastate nor cordate ; margins of all 

 unequally serrate ; glabrous ; 1 to 3 inches long, ^ to 2 inches wide ; petiole up to 

 1 inch long. Stipules when present leaf-like, ear shaped, serrate. Inflorescence 

 corymbose, the corymbs loosely many headed, heads discoid, flowers yellow. In- 

 volucre of 5 to 7 oblong, acute scales, about If line long; calycled at base by 

 about 5 short, narrow scales. Corolla tubular, inflated at apex. Stamens 5, 

 anther cells acute at base, connective produced at apex ; pappus of many slender, 

 straight rough bristles. Style elongate, the arms recurved, truncate and minutely 

 bristly at apex. Achenes linear, striate, hispid. 



Habitat.- NATAL: Inanda, 1800 feet alt, Wood, 156; without precise locality, 

 Qerrard, 329 ; near Durban, August, Wood ; also in Cape Colony. 



A slender wide climbing plant usually found at edges of bush, where its 

 trusses of yellow flowers are very conspicuous. It is plentiful in the coast dis- 

 tricts and occurs at more than 2,000 feet above sea level. I cannot learn that the 

 natives have any distinct name for it, nor is it used in any way so far as known 

 to us. 



Fig. 1, flower head; 2, involucre opened; 3, portion of involucre showing 

 calycle ; 4, floret ; 5, three stamens ; 6, style and stigmas ; 7, achene ; all enlarged. 



