4.06 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hiern). lEmiJm. 



3. S. pumlla, DC. Prodr, vi. p. 302. Erect annual, 3J in. high, 

 qnite glabrous except the base. Stem nearly naked, bifid. Leaves 

 subradical, subentire, the upper oval, sessile, amplexicaul IJ by ^ in., 

 the lower narrowed at the base into a petiole. Bract linear, amplexi- 

 caul, ^ in. long. Capitula campanulate, ^ in. long. Peduncles l|-2 

 in. long. Involucral bracts linear, acuminate, falling short of .the 

 yellow florets. — Cacalia pumila, Bojer ex DC. I.e. 



lUfozamb. Blstr. Zanzibar Island, ^<>;'cr / 



4. IS. caespitosa, OUv. in Trans, Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 100. 

 A puberulous annual, 1 ft. high, much branched at the base. Branches 

 ascending, leafy below, nearly naked above, simple or nearly so. 

 Leaves linear-oval, the upper ones somewhat lanceolate, the uppermost 

 linear, obtuse or with a callous tip, sessile, minutely or obsoletely den- 

 ticulate, mostly glabrous or very nearly so, ^2J by ^V— J in., not auri- 

 culate at base. Capitula ^-f in. long, widely campanulate or nearly 

 hemispherical, on pedicels of ^-2 in., 3 or 4 together terminating the 

 branches. Involucral bracts narrowly linear, acute, more or less scat- 

 tered with crisped hairs, falling short of the orange florets. — Emilia, 

 n. 3, T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ., App. p. 638. 



Vile Xiand. Karague, Speke and Grant I 



5. S. T gracilis, DC. Prodr. vi. p. 303. An annual herb, about a 

 foot high. Stem herbaceous, erect, branched, sparingly lanate. Lower 

 leaves ovate, acute, attenuate at the base into the petiole ; upper leaves 

 sessile, cordate-amplexicaul, spathulate-lanceolate, all crenate, mem- 

 branous, reticulate-venose. Upper branches naked, bearing at the 

 apex 2 pedicellate capitula. Capitula cylindrical, ecalyculate. Florets 

 pale yellow, the outer ones sterile ?, the central ones hermaphrodite. 

 Style-branches capillary, quite patent, almost like those of Gynura. — 

 Ca/^alia gracilis, Boj. mss. et ic. ex DC. I.e. ; .'' G. tenuissima, Boj. in 

 Rapp. Soc. Maur. vi. p. 27, ex DC. I.e. 



Mozaml). 2>istr. Zanzibar Island, in sandy places near the sea shore, Bojer. 



82. NOTONIA, DC, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 446. 



Characters of Senecio, with discoid capitula, with or without a 

 calyculus, differing in the continuous ovate or lanceolate papillose ex- 

 tremities of the style-branches. — Glabrous fleshy undershrubs with 

 succulent or rudimentary leaves and rather large solitary or cymose 

 scarlet (or yellow) capitula. 



A small genus represented also in India. The following are endemic. 

 Achenes glabrous. 



Involucral bracts 13-15 1, N. abyssinica. 



Involucral bracts 8-10. 



Leaves narrowly fusiform 2. N. coccinea. 



Leaves flat but fleshy. 



Corollas exceeding the pappus. Heads | in. long . 3. N. Grantii. 

 Corollas falling short of the pappus. Heads l-l| in. 



long '. . 4. iV; Schweinfurthii. 



Achenes hairy b. N. trachycarpa. 



