Senecio.'} LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 347 



acuminate scabrid without white margins, ligules 10-15 narrow, achenes small 

 scabrid about equalling the white rigid subbiseriate pappus. 



The CONCAK ; Bababooden hills, Law, Dalzell. 



Stem 1-2 ft., rigid, angled and grooved, branches erect. Leaves 2-3- in., the 

 broadest in. diam., narrowed to both ends, auricles rounded or 0, very leathery, 

 smooth or scabrid above. Heads numerous ; peduncles -with a few minute bracts. 

 Achenes (immature) ^ in., turbinate; pappus-hairs very rigid, scabrid, some very 

 short. 



30. S. Xiawii, Clarke Comp. Ind. 201; very slender, excessively branched, 

 stem branches and leaves beneath more or less white and cottony, leaves lower 

 or most petioled lanceolate irregularly coarsely toothed with the petiole not 

 auricled, upper or most sessile linear entire or obscurely toothed with an auricled 

 base, heads bracteolate turbinate or capillary axillary and solitary or terminal 

 and subcorymbose peduncles, invol. bracts 12-15 ~ in. long obovate acuminate 

 puberulous, ligules 8-10, achenes small scabrid equalling the white subbiseriate 

 pappus. 



Hills of the CONCAN (or MYSORE ?) ; Severndroog talooka, Dalzell, &c. 



Very closely allied to S.Dalzellii, but much more slender, with capillary peduncles 

 to the smaller heads. I suspect, however, that these characters will not prove con- 

 stant, the achenes and pappus being identical. The only "Severndroog talooka" I 

 can find is in Mysore (W. of Hydrabad), where I doubt Dalzell having ever been. 



31. S. G-rahami, Hook. f. ; erect, much branched, slender, branchea 

 glabrous or scaberulous, leaves rhombic-ovate narrowed suddenly into a short 

 simple or lobulate petiole irregularly coarsely toothed white and cottony beneath 

 with broad green veins, heads solitary and axillary or subcorymbose on very 

 slender peduncles bracteolate, invol. bracts 12-18 in. long obovate- oblong 

 acuminate pubescent, ligules 10-12 elongate, achenes obconic scabrid equalling 

 the double white pappus of long paleaceous and short setaceous hairs. S. 

 reticulatus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 199. Doronicum reticulatum, Wight in Calc. 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 156; Ic. t. 1151, B. Madaractis arachnoidea, Herb. 

 Calc. 



BOMBAY ; Tanna district ; Graham, Law, &c. 



Herbaceous, 2-3 ft. Leaves 1-2% in. long, 5-nerved at the base ; petiole of lower 

 often as long, slender, exauricled, of the upper shorter, often broadly winged, auricled, 

 Peduncles with setaceous bracts. Ligules % in., linear. Invol. bracts without white 

 margins. AcTicnes of the ray curved, linear, compressed, smooth, of the disk in. 

 long, turbinate, angled, ribbed and strigose, much longer than the pappus, the long 

 rigid hairs of which are flattened and taper from a broad base. Nothing can be more 

 foreign to the character of Senecio than the pappus of this plant, which is however 

 clearly related closely to 8. Lawii and S. belgaumensis, &c. 



32. S. Cribsoni, Hook. f. ; erect, much branched, branches slender 

 scaberulous, leaves ovate-lanceolate or subrhomboid apiculate sessile or narrowed 

 into a broadly winged auricled petiole sinuate-toothed glabrous or scaberulous 

 above grey beneath with appressed cottony down nerves slender, heads ecalycu- 

 late on very slender peduncles in lax dichotomously branched corymbs, invol. 

 bracts 15-18 i in. long obovate-oblong acuminate puberulous, ligules 8-10 long 

 narrow, achenes obconic glabrous longer than the scanty whitish pappus of 

 rigid scabrid long and short hairs. 



The CONCAN and CANARA ; Bababooden hills, Law, Dalzell. 



This very much resembles S. Grahami, but the leaves are narrower, more mem- 

 branous, with much shorter petioles and are not white beneath, the heads are much 

 smaller and the achenes though of the same form and length are glabrous, and the 

 pappus-hairs are not at all paleaceous. 



