422 Lxxiii. coMPOsiTiE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Seneoio. 



many together in pedunculate corymbose cymes, with a few bracteoles 

 outside the involucre. Involucral bracts 6-8, linear-oblong, with wide 

 scarious margins and sphacelate pointed tips. Florets 13-22, all tu- 

 bular, IJ times the length of the involucre. Achenes striate, ap- 

 pressedly villous. Receptacle ciliate. Style-branches appendiculate. 

 — Notonia kleinioidesy Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Fl. ^thiop. p. 151. 



xrile Xiand. Abyssinia, Sckimper f 



The specimen of Stevdner with 5-6 involucral bracts, red florets only 10, and 

 leafless, quoted by Ascherson in Schweinfurth 1. c. p. 246, may belong to Senecio 

 longiflorus. 



DOUBTFUL AOT) UNKNOWN SPECIES OF SENECIO. 



Senecio flavus, Schultz Bip., i.e. S. Decaisnei, D.C., a species closely allied to 8, 

 vulgaris, Linn., and occurring in the Canary Islands and the East from Algeria to 

 Arabia Felix and Afghanistan, is given in Schweinf. and Aschers. p. 286, as occurring 

 also in Nubia. 



Senecio salviifolius, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl, JEthiop. p. 160, without 

 description, from Abyssinia, is unknown to us. 



Senecio sp., incrassato, Guss. aff., Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. et Aschers. p. 286, 

 name only, from Nubia, is unknown to us. 



84. WERNEBIA, H. B. K. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 451. 



Characters of Senecio, but 1-seriate bracts of the involucre more or 

 less coherent at base. — Low tufted acaulescent herbs with radical 

 leaves and yellow- rose- or white-rayed large or medium-sized heads. 



A considerable genus of the South American Andes with the following (and per- 

 haps another, Himalayan) outlier. 



1. W. africana, 0. Sf H. Dwarf caespitose perennial herb, 2-3 J 

 in. high. Rootstock thick. Stem very short, covered below by im- 

 bricated bases of the leaves, pubescent above. Leaves linear, elongated, 

 obtuse, glabrous or nearly so, sessile, dilating at the base and subam- 

 plexicaul, entire or indistinctly toothed, ^3 in. long, the uppermost 

 bract-Uke, smaller. Capitula solitary, terminal, subhemispherical, -^-j 

 in. diameter, on peduncles ranging up to 1^ in. Involucral bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, erect, with scarious or paler margins, ciliolate-tufted 

 or obtuse at the tip, connate from base ^— J way up. Ligule of the ray- 

 florets ^-f in. long, revolute. Achenes glabrous. — Senecio nanuSj ' 

 Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 1265. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, 

 i. p. 443, non Werneria nana, C.B. Clarke Comp. Ind. p. 210 (1876). 

 S. amcenics, Schultz Bip. 1. c. ii. 1307. 



srUe land. Abyssinia, SchimperJ JRuppell (/3. denticulatus, Schultz Bip. in 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. JEthiop. p. 159). | 



85. EURYOPS, Cass. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 452. | 



Capitula heterogamous, radiate ; ray-florets 1-seriate, $ . Involucre 

 hemispherical or campanulate ; bracts 1-seriate or nearly so, equal, 

 distinctly connate below, imbricate. Receptacle foveolate, toothed (or 

 naked). Style-branches obtuse, penicillate. Achenes with a caducous 



