598 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Senecio 



diameter; pedicels slender, dilated at the a^^ex, ranging vip to 

 \\ in. long ; branches of the inflorescence bracteate ; bracts 

 lanceolate or subulate, entire, -^^ to ^ in. long ; involucral scales 

 viniseriate, equal, about 20, i in. long, sublinear, narrowed at the 

 apex to a reddish scarious-tipped point, scarious on the imbricating 

 lateral margins, erect in flower, reflexed after the fall of the fruit ; 

 flowers lilac or of a pale whitish-violet colour, quickly turning 

 yellowish, numerous, hermaphrodite, tubular, about ^'^ in. long ; 

 corolla membranous, ^ in. long, very narrow about the middle, 

 slightly dilated near the base, funnel-shaped in the upper half, 

 shortly 5-lobed, the lobes triangular-ovate, uninerved, obtuse ; 

 anthers clear bright blue, half exserted, shortly appendaged at 

 the apex, subobtuse and exappendiculate at the base but with 

 the filaments abruptly thickened near their apices ; style-branches 

 narrow, puberulous-stigmatose, exappendiculate, truncate-dilated 

 at the apex, equalling the corolla ; achenes subtei'ete, dusky when 

 ripe, tapering a little from the middle towards each end, 10-ribbed, 

 setulose with short thick whitish hairs between the ribs, yV in. 

 long, with a narrow whitish cartilaginous ring round the apex from 

 which arises the copious white silky subuniseriate setose pappus ; 

 the setse very slender, very delicately scabrid (as seen under a 

 lens), i in. long ; receptacle flat, about y'^ in. in diameter, naked. 



HuiLLA.— In marshy places ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3677- In 

 damp meadows (varzeas) at the river Cacolovar, on the right-hand 

 side of the road leading from Ivantilla to Quilengues ; fl. and fr. Feb. 

 1860. No. 3678. 



This somewhat resembles S. purpureus L., but the leaves are less 

 deeply divided and the achenes setulose ; it is also rather like -S. crixjjus 

 Thunb. 



5. S. latifolius DC. Prodr. vi. p. 387 (1837) ; Harv., I.e., p. 377. 



5. hupkuroides DC, I.e. ; 0. & H., I.e., p. 414. 



HuiLLA. — An erect, glaucescent, apparently perennial herb, with 

 yellow flowers. In the drier bushy pastures near Feriao da Sola, not 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3673- At Lopollo ; fl. Dec. 1859. 

 No. 3674. 



6. S. lasiorhizus DC, I.e. ; O. & H., I.e., p. 415. 



Chieraria coronata Thunb. Prodr. PI. dp. pars posterior, p. 154 

 (1800). S. coronatus Harv., I.e., p. 369. 



HuiLLA. — A herb with the form of a Cinerarht ; stems several, 

 erect ; ligule of the ray-florets bright golden-yellow, disk-florets paler. 

 In the moist meadows of MumpuUa, in company with Scabiosa 

 Columbaria L. (Welw. Herb. No. 520) ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3685. 

 Flowers yellow. In the drier bushy pastures about Lopollo towards 

 the east, in company with Thymelasacete and Santalace^ ; fl. and fr. 

 Nov. and Dec. 1859. A rather hairy form of the species. No. 3686 

 A perennial herb, 1 to \h ft. high ; stem firm, erect ; flowers corymbo.se, 

 yellow. Lopollo ; fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 18(30. Apparently this 

 species, Coll. Carp. 665. 



7. S. pentecostus Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect, pale green, conspicuous herb, 3 to 5 ft. high ; root- 



