190 composite. [Senecio. 



on long petioles, the upper ones either lyrate or with a broad petiole expand- 

 ing into stem-clasping auricles, or entire, sessile, and sagittate. Flower-heads 

 few, on long leafless peduncles. Involucre cylindrical or ovoid, about 6 lines 

 long, of about 8 or 10 equal bracts, without any small outer ones. Florets 

 rather longer, all tubular, purple or orange. — Emilia sonchifolia, DC. Prod, 

 vi. 302. 



On roadsides and waste places, Hinds, Wright, Wilford. A common weed in tropical 

 Asia and Africa, and some parts of America. 



2. S. chinensis, DC. Prod. vi. 363. An erect or half-scandent peren- 

 nial, attaining 3 or 4 ft. in length, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves on 

 petioles of \ in. or more, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, toothed, usually about 



% but sometimes 3 in. long. Flower-heads radiating, in a loose terminal 

 divaricate panicle. Involucre about 3 lines long, of about 12 nearly equal 

 bracts, with some outer ones very minute, and chiefly along the peduncle. 

 Ray-florets about 8 or 10, yellow. Disk-florets above 20, rather longer than 

 the involucre. Achenes scarcely pubescent. — S. campylodes, DC.'Prod. vi. 

 370. 8. Hindsii, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 488. 



Ravines of Mounts Victoria and Gough, Champion and others. Extends over S. China 

 to Khasia and Sikkim. It is also very near to the S. Wightiana, DC, from the Indian 

 Peninsula. 



3. S. Stauntonii, DC. Prod. vi. 363. An erect perennial, the branches 

 angular, flexuose, nearly glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, or the upper ones linear, 

 sinuately toothed, embracing the stem by their auriculate base, pubescent or 

 hairy on both sides, or glabrous above, 2 to 4 in. long, or even more. Flower- 

 heads in a loose corymbose panicle, the peduncles more erect than in the last, 

 and the heads rather larger. In vomeral bracts about 3^ lines long, with a 

 very few small outer ones, chiefly on the peduncle. Eay yellow, of 8 or 10 

 florets. 



With the last species, Champion, Wright, Wilford. It is also, as well as the last, among 

 Sir G. Staunton's specimens from China, hut has not heen received from elsewhere. 



Tribe X. MUTISIEJE. 



Leaves alternate. Flower-heads either heterogamous with radiating female 

 florets, or homogamous with tubular florets, some or all of the outer florets 

 more or less 2 -lipped. Receptacle mostly without scales. Anthers pointed 

 or tailed at the base. Style usually thickened under the branches, which are 

 erect and truncate, often short. Pappus bristly or chaffy. 



34. PARPUGIUM, Lindl. 



Flower-heads heterogamous. Florets of the circumference female, ligulate, 

 in a single row, often with a small upper lip. Disk-florets hermaphrodite, 

 tubular, 5 -toothed, the outer ones often 2-lipped. Involucre of several nearly 

 equal bracts in a single row, with a few outer smaller ones. Receptacle naked. 

 Anthers with fine points at the base. Style-branches elongated, obtuse, pu- 

 bescent. Achenes linear-oblong. Pappus of numerous stiff capillary bristles, 

 slightly dilated, and sometimes shortly connate at the base. 



An East Asiatic genus, of vei-y few species, which it may be difficult to separate very pre- 



