404 Lxxiii. cOMPOSiTiE (oLiYER AND hiern). [Cineraria. 



80. CINERARIA, L. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 445. 



Capitula heterogamous, ray-florets lignlate yellow. Involucre cam- 

 panulate, bracts 1 -seriate equal, sometimes with a few outer shorter 

 scales. Receptacle naked. Anther-base unappendaged. Style- 

 branches truncate papillose. Achenes at least the outer more or less 

 compressed ; pappus of soft caducous setae. — Herbs or frutescent, with 

 alternate roundish toothed or more or less lyrately pinnatifid leaves and 

 corymbose cymes of small or medium-sized capitula. 



A genus chiefly South African, differing from Senecio simply in the compressed 

 achenes. 



Disk achenes hispidulous, pale. Terminal lobe of leaves 



lanceolate 1.0. Schimperi. 



Achenes glabrous, black. Terminal lobe of leaves rounded 2. C. abyssinica. 



1. C Scblmperl, SchuUz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 184. 

 Erect branched herb or shrubby, 1-10 ft. high or more. Leaves (at 

 least the stem ones) sessile, auriculate-amplexicaul, lyrate-pinnatipar- 

 tite, puberulous at least beneath, 1^—3 by ;J— 1 in. ; lobes acutely toothed, 

 the terminal one lanceolate acute, much the largest. Capitula ^ in. 

 long, on pedicels of |-1 in., in a corymbose cyme. Involucral bracts 

 linear acute glabrous. Achenes pale ; those of the ray margined, nearly 

 glabrous ; those of the disk hispidulous. — Senecio lyratipartitus^ Schultz 

 Bip. 1. c. iii. n. 1843 ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 439. 



Vile :Lan(l. Ahyesmio., Schimper ! Hildebratidt / 



2. C. abyssinioa* SchuUz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 335. 

 Repeatedly branched herb, slightly shrubby at base, ^-2 ft. high or more. 

 Leaves pinnatipartite or pinnatifid, often lyrately so, sometimes not pin- 

 nately lobed, petiolate or the upper ones subentire or simply dentate, 

 sessile and amplexicaul, 1-2^ by ^-2^ in., including the petiole which 

 is sometimes above 1-2 in. long, glabrescent above, whitish and sub- 

 tomentose below ; lobes dentate and usually shallowly lobed, the termi- 

 nal one of the lower leaves round in outline, much the largest. Capitula 

 about J in. long, on pedicels oi^-1 in., in an ample corymbose cyme. 

 Involucral bracts linear, acute, gradually tapering towards the apex, 

 subglabrous or slightly woolly. Achenes glabrous, black, margined, not 

 winged, with a prominent rib on the back and a less conspicuous one 

 on the face. — A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 433. 



srile ]«and. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 6-13,000 ft. alt. ; at great altitude on the 

 Silk6, Ferret and Gcdinier. 



Specimens collected by Mr. New on Kilima-njaro, at the last zone of vegetation 

 below perpetual snow may be a glabrate variety of this species. 



The following forms differ from the type : — 



(1.) longiradiata. Upper leaves pinnately lobed, with large auricles ; lower leaves 

 not pinnately lobed. Outer florets with rays about as long as the involucre. — C. 

 grandifiora, Vatke in Linnsea xxxix. p. 603 (1875). Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



(2.) i?o<Aw. Nearly all the leaves without pinnate lobes. Rays short. Abyssinia, 

 Both! 



