344 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Senecio. 



CEYLON ; Ambagamowa district, alt. 3-5000 ft., Macrae, Thwaites. 

 The habit, foliage and inflorescence of this are entirely that of S. linifolius and 

 the pappus is the same, but the achenes are very much smaller and pubescent. 



20. S. saxatilis, Wall. Cat. 3131 ; slender, pubescent, hirsute or glabrate, 

 leaves sessile base auricled linear linear-oblong or elliptic-oblong acute or acumi- 

 nate 1-nerved serrate, heads few ebracteolate long peduncled subcorymbose, 

 invol. bracts 15-20 in. long oblong lanceolate acuminate, ligules 8-12, achenes 

 linear slender glabrous longer than the whitish or reddish pappus. DC. Prodr. 

 vi. 367. S. Rabani and pilosiusculus. Clarke Comp. Ind. 202, 203. S. Wightii, 

 Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 248 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 197. Doronicum Wightii, DC. 

 in Wight Contrib. 23 ; Prodr. vi. 322 : Wight Ic. t. 1124. Madaractis glabra, 

 DC. Prodr. vi. 440. M. Metziana, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 1011. 



KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 4 7000 ft. NILGHERRY MTS. ; in moist pastures; Wight, &c. 



A much more variable plant than 8. linifolius, both as to foliage and hairiness, 

 but always distinguishable from it by the auricled upper leaf-bases. Of the Khasian 

 specimens, one form from river banks closely resembles linifolius in all other respects; 

 another growing in drier places is very hispid and has broader leaves, both these have 

 linear leaves 4-7 in. long and - in. broad ; a third very slender hispid form has 

 short elliptic-lanceolate acute leaves, the lower only 1^ in. long contracted into an 

 auricled petiole. The whole plant smells of sweetbriar when bruised. Of the 

 Nilgherry specimens the two most divergent forms are a tall stout coarse glabrous 

 one 2-3 ft. high, much corymbosely branched above, with petioled toothed elliptic- 

 lanceolate lower leaves and coarsely- toothed cauline leaves with broad auricled bases ; 

 and a more slender simpler one, with all the leaves smaller and regularly crenate- 

 toothed and elliptic-lanceolate. Between these there are all intermediates, and each 

 has subsidiary varieties which imitate the Khasian ones in greater or less degree. 

 The pappus-hairs are all long and rather slender in this species. 



?21. S. IVXishmi, Clarke Comp. Ind. 203 ; stem glabrous angular, leaves 

 sessile with broad amplexicaul bases produced backwards broadly oblong acute 

 glandular-pubescent on both surfaces denticulate or subentire, heads large 

 almost glabrous in long angular bracteolate peduncles, invol. bracts 10-14 

 narrowly oblong acute margins white, ligules long flat, acheues narrowly oblong 

 5-angled glabrous much shorter than the slender white pappus. 



UPPER ASSAM ; Mishmi hills, Griffith. 



I have seen no specimens of this, which is described from a fragment a foot long 

 in the Calcutta Herbarium, and Mr. Clarke has no further information to give re- 

 specting it ; its tailless anther-cells and epappose ray-fl. place it in this section. 



22. S. polycephalus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 197 ; herbaceous, pubescent 

 hispid or scabrid, leaves all sessile obovate-oblong or linear or lanceolate regularly 

 crenately serrate, lower 3-5-nerved upper with dilated auricled bases, heads few 

 or many bracteolate long-peduncled corymbose, invol. bracts 10-15 | in. long 

 linear-oblong acuminate glabrous or pubescent, ligules 8-10, achenes linear 

 glabrous or scabrid nearly equalling the red pappus. Madaractis polycephala, 

 DC. Prodr. vi. 440. Doronicum Arnottii, DC. in Wight Contrib. 23; Prodr. 

 I.e. 322; Wight Ic. t. 1125. 



NLLGHERRY MTS. ; alt. 6-7500 ft., on the northern slopes, Wight, &c. 



A coarse herb 10-18 in., often branched corymbosely from the very base, with 

 stout branches and thickish leaves, very brown when dry, Leaves 1-3 in., usually 

 regularly crenate-toothed with rather thickened margins. Ligules very broadly 

 oblong, equalling the invol. bracts. Achenes slender, often in. long, from quite 

 glabrous to very scabrid, as in Wight's figure. 



23. S. Leasing ianus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 198; herbaceous, hispidly 

 pubescent, leaves all sessile and auricled linear-oblong deeply acutely serrate or 



