Senecio.] lxxiii. composite? (Oliver and hiern). 411 



ing branches scattered with white crisped hairs. Leaves orbicular, 

 |-2 in. diameter, except the uppermost obovate-spathulate ones, 

 repand-denticulate, retuse depressed or very obtuse at apex, puberu- 

 lous, suddenly narrowed into an alate petiolarhalf of |-1^ in. Capitula 

 widely campanulate, ^ in. long, 1-3 together, on peduncles of 3-7 in. 

 terminating the branches. Calyculus absent. Involucral bracts 

 broadly linear with an ovate acute apex, sti-iate, glabrous, with narrow 

 scarious margins, reflexed after flowering. Outer florets with an 

 orange or golden-coloured ligule, oval, trifid at apex, reflexed, ^ in. long. 

 Achenes (immature) costate, setulose on the ribs ; setulae very short. 

 Receptacle convex, -} in. diameter. — Emilia^ n. 1, T. Thoms. in Speke, 

 Joum., App. p. 638. 



Wile Iiand. Uganda, Speke and Grant.' (1° N. Lat. in the plantain groves) ; 

 Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth .' 



3. S. 1 emllioides, ScJmltz Bip. in herb. Vindoh. ; u^thiop. Kotsch, 

 1837-8, n. 203, etm Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^tliiop. p. 158. A glabrous 

 annual, branched from the base. Capitula discoid, twice the size of 

 those of 8. ahyssinicus, Schultz Bip. Involucral bracts in one row. 

 Style-branches penicillate-truncate at the apex. 



xrile Kand. ^Ethiopia, Sennaar?, Kotschy. 

 We have not seen the specimen. 



4. S. vulgraris, Lwm. 8p. PI edit. i. p. 867 (1753). Erect, 

 glabrous, 6-18 in. high, branched from the base, annual. Branches 

 terete, striate. Lowest leaves dentate or subentire, oblong-spathulate, 

 petiolate, scarcely 1 in. long, stem-leaves pinnatifid or pinnatipartite, 

 sessile, auriculate-amplexicaul, ranging up to 2 by 1 in,, segments 

 distant, spreading, oblong or ovate, obtuse, as well as the rhachis more 

 or less toothed. Capitula oblong, discoid, ^ in. long, on short slender 

 pedicels, in dense corymbose cymes. Calyculus of several minute 

 appressed bracts. Involucral bracts linear. Achenes puberulous. — 

 DC. Prodr. vi. p. 341 . 8. gaffateiisis, Vatke in Linneea xxxix. p. 505 

 (1875). 



WTile Xiand. Abyssinia, in meadows near Gaffat, 8100-8200 ft. alt., Schimper! 

 Widely spread over Europe and the East, extending to America, and introduced 

 into New South Wales. 



5. S» arabicus, Linn. Mant. i. p. 114. Annual, glabrous in most 

 parts, about ^-1^ ft. high, not much branched, leafy. Leaves pinnati- 

 fid or pinnatipartite, mostly oval in general outline, 1-3^ in. long, 

 upper sessile amplexicaul or subpetiolate with an auriculate base, 

 lower narrowed into a petiole ; lobes dentiform or toothed. Capitula 

 campanulate, ^ in. long, on slender pedicels ranging up to J in., in a 

 divaricate corymbose cyme. Calyculus of 6-9 short bracts. Involu- 

 cral bracts linear with a lanceolate tip and scarious margin, equalling 

 the pappus. Ligule absent. Achenes puberulous all over, costate. — 

 DC. Prodr. vi. 342. 8. cegyptius, Linn., /3. discoideus, Boiss. Fl. Or. 

 iii. p. 388 (1875). 



Wile Xiand. Cordofan, Kotschy .' Nubia, Islands in the Nile, Bromfield! 

 Occurs also in Egypt. 



