Senecio.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 345 



toothed, heads f-1 in. diam. many-fid, turbinate long-peduncled bracteolate, 

 invol. bracts 10-15 \ in. long linear-oblong acuminate hispid, ligules 8-10 very 

 broad, achenes linear scabrid equalling the red pappus. Doronicum Lessingi- 

 AEum, Wight $ Am. in Am. Pugill. 106 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 322 ; Wight Ic. t. 

 1126. Madaractis scabra, DC. I. c. 439. 



NILGHEBBY Mis. ; alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight, &c. 



Closely allied to S. polycephalus and as coarse, always hispid, with more numerous 

 more reniform leaves which are very deeply toothed. 



* Leaves not white and cottony beneath, pinnatifid. 



24. S. ludens, Clarke Comp. Ind. 199 ; herbaceous, hirsute puberulous 

 scaberulous or glabrate, stem strict or slender, leaves polymorphous simple or 

 more often lyrate-pinnatifid with broadly auricled bases or petioles, terminal 

 lobe ovate or orbicular-ovate or -cordate lobulate and toothed lateral small 

 gashed or 0, heads ecalyculate irregularly corymbose on stout or slender ped- 

 uncles, invol. bracts 12-16 in. long linear-oblong acuminate usually glabrous, 

 ligules 8-10 broadly oblong, achenes quite or nearly glabrous or hispid slender 

 equalling the dirty- white pappus. Doronicum Walkeri, Am. Pugill. 32; DC. 

 Prodr. vi. 322 ; Thwaites Enum. 167. 



The CONCAN ; Bababooclan and Wattikely hills, alt. 5000 ft., Law, &c. CEITLON ; 

 central province, alt. 5-7000 ft., Walker, &c. 



A most sportive plant ; some of the Concan specimens are very stout, a foot high 

 with a much branched stem as thick below as the little finger and leaves with the 

 terminal lobe 2 in. diam. ; others have flexuous leafy unbranched stems with long 

 petioled leaves reduced to the terminal lobe, others have oblong leaves 4-5 by 1 in., 

 uniformly pinnatifid with oblong ascending toothed lobes. The Ceylon forms are 

 often as stout, but more often slender, less branched and less leafy than the Concan 

 ones, with sometimes a very few small elliptic petioled toothed leaves -1 in. long, 

 without auricled bases, and the stem produced into a very slender forked scape bear- 

 ing 2-4 subcorymbose heads, on filiform peduncles. A very singular small apparently 

 prostrate Ceylon form, probably growing in water, has slender stems emitting long 

 roots, and rather recurved rhomboid petioled toothed leaves \-^ in. long, and single 

 or but few heads. The achenes are rarely as described by Clarke villously hairy ; I 

 can sometimes detect only minute hairs, at others short spreading ones, and at others 

 none at all ; they are about ^ in. long and contracted Lelow the top. Clarke's name 

 is a very applicable one, but that of Walkeri should have been retained. 



25. S. Hohenackeri, Hook. /. ; glabrous puberulous or scabrid, stem 

 "woody very stout and much branched below, branches short ascending herbaceous 

 above leafy, petiole not auricled, leaves small deeply pinnatifid segments few 

 short acute toothed or lobed margins recurved, heads long-peduncled bracteo- 

 late, invol. bracts 10-15 in. long lanceolate acuminate rigid glabrous or sca- 

 brid, ligules 6-10, achenes slender more or less scabrid nearly equalling the red 

 pappus. S. pinnatifidus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 198. Madaractis pinnatifida, DC. 

 Prodr. vi. 439. Doronicum Candolleanum, Wight fy Am. in Am. Pugitt. 108 ; 

 DC. Prodr. vi. 322 ; Wight Ic. t, 1127. D. rupestre, Wight Ic. t. 1128. 



NILGHERBY and SHEVAGHEEEY MTS. ; alt. 7-8000 ft., Wight, &c., in pastures. 



Soot and stout branched stock as thick as the little finger ; branches rather 

 slender very many 3-6 in. Leaves ^-1 in. ; petiole short, slender or 0. Acheves 

 ^ in. ; pappus hairs all long or with a few short ones. 



26. S. tenuifolius, Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 60, f. 4; annual, slender, herba- 

 ceous, glabrous, much branched, leaves sessile pinnatifid or sub-2-pinnatifid, 

 lobes very slender spreading obtuse, heads few long-peduncled ebracteolate in 

 divaricating corymbs, invol. bracts 10-12 in. long obovate-oblong acute mem- 

 branous glabrous, ligules 6-10, achenes broader upwards scabrid equalling the 



