>S'e??ec/o] Lxxi. composuvk. 599 



stock thick, ubrupt at the base, there givinfj off thick ih scemUng 

 fibres, apparently perennial ; stem costatc-snlcate, glabrate, 

 branched above at the inflorescence ; branches angular, leafy, 

 more or less clothed (as are also some of the leaves and in- 

 floi-escence) with white papery-floccose deciduous or obsolete 

 patches ; radical or lower leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, narrowed 

 at both ends especially towards the petiolate base, glabrescent, 

 herbaceous, ranging up to more than 2 ft. long (inclusive of the 

 petiole) by 2 in. broad, crenulate-denticulate on the subcarti- 

 laginous margin nninerved ; the petiole clasping ; stem-leaves 

 similar but smaller and the upper ones sessile, alternate ; capitula 

 heterogamous, radiate, calyculate, campanulate, numerous, about 

 50-flowered, § to ^ in. long, on bracteate pedicels ranging up to 

 li in. long, arranged in rather dense corymbose terminal cymes 

 of about 6 in. in diameter ; bracts narrow ; calyculus consisting 

 of several smaller bracts similar to those of the inHovescence ; 

 flowers golden-yellow ; in volucral scales about 17, subglabrescent, 

 linear-oblong, about 1 to ^ in. long, lance-shaped towards the 

 ciliolate apex, scarious on the imbricate margins ; female florets 

 about 8, ligulate, marginal, uniseriate, fertile, about -^ in. long, 

 with a short bifid style, a glabrous ribbed and subcompressed ovary, 

 and setose whitish barbellate rather copious subuniseriate pappus ; 

 the ligule oval, very shortly 3-lobulate at the apex ; hermaphrodite 

 florets discoid, pku'iseriate, about 42, tubular, i in. long ; the corolla 

 shortly 5-lobed, glabrous ; anthers about equalling the corolla, at 

 length shortly exserted, obtusely appendaged at the apex, obtuse 

 and not appendaged at the base ; style-branches short, somewhat, 

 flattened, very obtuse and stigmatose at the apex, equalling the 

 anthers ; ovary glabrous, subcompressed, ribbed ; setfe of the 

 pappus pauciseriate, whitish, minutely setulose, rather copious, 

 i in. long, persistent ; receptacle areolate, the areolte sometimes 

 minutely paleaceous- fr i n ged . 



HuiLLA. — In marshy places along the banks of the Lopollo stream, 

 plentiful ; fl. beginning of May 18()0. Xo. 3681. 

 This is nearly related to S. albanensis DC. 



8. S. lygodes Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect glabrate robust herb, 3 ft. high or more; stem 

 angular or narx-owly winged by the decurrence of the leaves, 

 unbi-anched up to the inflorescence, leafy, pale, somewhat 

 yellowish ; leaves alternate, narrowly elliptical-linear or the 

 upper ones sublinear, attenuate at each end, sessile, decurrent, 

 suberect, uninerved, ranging up to more than a foot long b}' about 

 1 in. broad, thinly herbaceous, pale yellowish-green ; the margins 

 narrowly cartilaginous and revolute, minutely crenulate ; capitula 

 campanulate, calyculate or at least biacteolate at the base, 

 radiate, heterogamous, numerous, § to f in. long, erect, on unequal 

 rather slender bracteolate pedicels ranging up to If in. long 

 arranged in a corymbose terminal not very dense cyme of 4 to 

 6 in. in diameter ; bracteoles narrow, the uppermost ones the 



