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50. SENECIO LECHLERI Phil. 



Heads discoid, 3-5 on the branches. Undershrubs, with erect, virgate, 

 white-woolly branches. Leaves very green, rather glabrous on the upper 

 surface, webby underneath, erect, linear, entire, acute, fleshy. Pedicels 

 rather long, bracted, white-woolly. Involucral scales calyculate, apically 

 very green and pencillate. All the flowers tubular, white, slightly longer 

 than the involucres. 



Magellan, near Punta Arenas. 



51. S. LEUCOMALLUS A. Gray. 



Heads 1-3, discoid, midsized, pediceled, on leafy branches. Shrub 

 white, woolly, 30 cm. high. Leaves spatulate, entire, obtuse. Involucre 

 woolly, with bracteoles equalling its scales. Ac henes glabrous. (Leaves 

 as of Leonfopodium.} 



Magellan ; Fuegia, to Orange Harbor, near Cape Horn. 



52. S. LEUCOSTACHYS Baker. (S. albicaulis pinnatifidus H. & A.) 



Compound corymbs, heads twice as long as broad. Shrub hoary-tomen- 

 tose, at length naked. Branches white, smooth. Leaves pinnatifid, their 

 segments linear-elongate. Involucre oblong, its scales about 12, shorter 

 than the corollas, 28 mm. long, acute, subsphacelate at apex. 



Patagon., near Los Lamos. 



53- S. LIMBARDIOIDES Hook. & Am. 



Many-headed corymb. Scabrous shmb, with strict, striate branches, 

 subdensely leafy. Leaves broad-linear, subspatulate, acute, plane, entire, 

 with a distinct rib underneath. Pedicels with subulate bracteoles and 

 broad, calyculate involucre, its scales 16, linear-subulate, not sphacelate, 

 shorter than the corollas. 



Magellan, at Port Gregory. 



S. LIMBARDIOIDES MAJOR. 



Leaves and heads a little longer than the pedicels. Involucral scales 

 numerous. 



Magellan, Port Famine. 



