602 Lxxi. COMPOSIT.E. [Senecio 



rently all fertile ; corolla dilated into a small hemisphere at the 

 base, slightly and gradually widened upwards, shortly 5-cleft at 

 the apex, the lobes lanceolate; anthers included in the corolla, 

 rather exceeding its tube, acute and appendaged at the apex, 

 obtuse and not appendaged at the base ; style-branches about 

 equalling the anthers, short, truncate, stigmatose at the apex; 

 achenes (young) oblong, unequally ribbed, glabrous, ~ in. long, 

 with an oval cartilaginous ring at the apex from which arises the 

 white setose pappus ; the seta; very slender, barbellate, erect, about 

 i in. long, subuniseriate, rather copious. 



HuiLLA. — In the more elevated pastures in Morro de Lopollo, in 

 the direction of Empalanca ; fl. Dec. 1869 and March 1860. Xo. 3574. 



12. S. uvens Hiern, sp. n. 



A glaucous-green very nearly glabrous somewhat fleshy decum- 

 bent herb, 7 to 9 in. high ; root creeping, branched ; stems 

 numerous, simple or nearly so, prostrate for half their length or 

 more, the flowering stems 13 to 17 in. long, secundly leafy 

 throughout the prostrate portion, the ei-ect part scapelike 6 to 8 in. 

 long bracteate and nearly leafless ; leaves alternate, crowded, 

 oblong, obtuse, sessile, obscurely vesicular-rugulose, uninerved, 

 li to 2 in. long by ^ to i in. broad; margins entire, narrowly 

 revolute ; capitula homogamous, discoid, broadly campanulate, 

 dilated around the apex, i to § in. long and broad, solitary, 

 terminal, erect ; bracts nari^ow, ^ *^ f i^- ^<^^^gj ^.he upper ones 

 successively smaller and less distant; involucre calyculate with 

 a few scales similar to the uppermost bracts ; involucral scales 

 about 20, sublinear, uniseriate, inserted around the dilated recep- 

 tacle, f to f in. long, not quite glabrous on the back, pointed at 

 the apex with fuscous tips, the lateral margins scarious and over- 

 lapping; flowers numerous, yellow, about ^ in. long or rather 

 longer, all tubular, hermaphrodite ; corolla | to f in. long, shortly 

 5-lobed ; anthers included, obtuse and exappendiculate at both 

 ends ; style-branches about -^jj in. long, narrow, puberulous- 

 stigmatose, terminated with very narrow exserted appendages; 

 achenes glabrous, 10-ribbed, narrowly ovoid-oblong, rather thicker 

 about the middle, i in. long, with a ring around the apex from 

 which arises the white copious setose pappus ; the setee very 

 slender, i in. long, minutely setulose, numerous, subuniseriate ; 

 receptacle somewhat concave, i to i in. in diameter, naked. 



HuiLLA. — In swampy places at the river Cacolovar, between 

 Ivantiila and Quilengues ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860 ; also by the river at 

 Lopollo. No. 3670. 



13. S. multicorymbosus Klatt in Ann. Nat. Hist. Hofmus. 

 Wien, vii. p. 103 (1892); O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soe. Brot. xiii. p. 32. 



GoLUNGO Alto.^A small tree, candelabriform, 10 to 12 ft. high ; 

 branches patent, curving upwards towards the apex and there bearing 

 fascicles of leaves and from their centre flowering panicles 1 to 2l ft. 

 long ; flowers yellow, after the fashion of the genus. At the damp 

 outskirts of forests between Cambondo and N-delle, growing in 

 groups ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1864. No. 3689. 



