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



33. S. belgaumensis, Clarke Comp. Ind. 200; erect, much branched, 

 branches slender glabrous or pubescent, leaves rhombic-ovate narrowed into a 

 broad auricled petiole acute coarsely toothed or gashed white and cottony 

 beneath except the nerves, heads ecalyculate on long capillary loosely irregularly 

 corymbose peduncles, invol. bracts 12-18 ~ in. long obovate-oblong acuminate 

 pubescent, ligules 8-10, achenes turbinate ribbed scabrid epappose. Madacarpus 

 belgaumensis, Wight in Cole. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 157 ; Ic. t. 1152 ; Dalz. 8f 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 130. ? Doronicum reticulatum, Dalz. 8f Gibs. I. c. 



The DECCAN; Belgaum, Law, Dalzell, colouring the walls of the fort (at Jilwan?) 

 yellow, Ritchie. 



So similar to S. Grahami in habit and foliage that Clarke (Comp. Ind.) suggests 

 its being an epappose state of that plant, which suggestion, he informs me, he with- 

 draws in favour of its nearer affinity to S. Edgeworthii. From Grahami, it differs 

 chiefly in the much smaller involucral bracts, only ^ in. long, and more capillary 

 peduncles, as well as the absence of pappus, and from the Concan and Nilgherry form 

 of S. Edgeworthii it differs in being apparently annual, in its slender habit, in the 

 shape texture and clothing of the undersurface of the leaves, in the much smaller 

 invol. bracts without broad membranous margins, and in the shorter more turbinate 

 achenes ; but it approaches more Edgeworth's very imperfect specimen from Mandu. 

 Some of Dalzell's specimens of 8. belgaumensis with a tall erect stem 4-6 ft. high, 

 furnished throughout with short spreading branches bearing lax corymbose heads, 

 differ wholly in habit from the genus. In Dalzell and Gibson's Flora Doronicu/n 

 reticulatum (S. Grahami, nob.), is described as having no pappus, which obliges me to 

 quote it under this species, but I suspect this is a blunder, specimens from the habitat 

 ascribed to their D. reticulatum, " Island of Caranjah " (in Bombay harbour) would 

 clear up this point. 



SECT. IV. Ligularia. Perennial herbs with long petioled very broad 

 orbicular reniform or palmate radical leaves, and cauline leaves with large 

 sheaths. Heads large, nodding or deflexed, racemose or corymbose ; invol. 

 bracts 1 -seriate in insertion, of two forms, the narrower outer overlapping both 

 margins of the broader inner. Achenes glabrous, usually equalling or exceeding 

 the pappus, all pappose. The Indian species are all Himalayan with one 

 Khasian (see also genus Cremanthodium). 



* Leaves not palmately lobed; heads many, corymbose or in corymbose 

 racemes. 



34. S. amplexicaulis, Wall. Cat. 3139 ; very robust, nearly glabrous, 

 leaves orbicular-reniform cordate or subhastate toothed, petiole of lower long 

 simple or interruptedly winged, of upper with a broad sheathing wing, heads 

 inany-fld. corymbose or in corymbose racemes base broad, invol. bracts about 

 8 connate below oblong acute glabrous, ligules 5-6 very long, achenes narrow- 

 shorter than the rufous pappus. Clarke Comp. Ind. 204. S. Yakla, Clarke I. c. 

 Ligularia amplexicaulis and corymbosa, DC. Prodr. vi. 314. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; alt. 9-13,000 ft., from Kashmir to Garwhal. SIKKIM ; at 

 Yakla, alt. 16,000 ft., Clarke. 



Stem 2-4 ft., as thick as the thumb below. Leaves 1 ft. diam. and less, teeth 

 regular and alternately smaller. Heads drooping, campanulate, corymbose in flower, 

 racemed after flowering, branches of corymb pubescent ; invol. bracts \-^ in. ; ligules 

 ^-f in., slender ; disk-fl. with slender tube longer than the short campanulate limb. 

 Achenes | in. long, glabrous. The Sikkim specimens are smaller than the N. Western 

 and the disk corollas have a much shorter tube in proportion to the limb. 



35. S. Thomson!, Clarke Comp. Ind. 205; robust, glabrous below, 

 above glabrous or cottony, leaves orbicular hastate or cordate toothed, petiole 

 of lower not winged slender, heads 5-6-fld. corymbose or in subpanicled corymbs 



