( 393 ) 
zgo0.) This is much used in the higher Andean regions as a 
pectoral remedy. 
SENEcIO ANTENNARIA Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 106. (No. 1883.) 
The same as Mandon rzro. 
SENEcIO Formosus H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 177. (Mo. 1958.) 
The same as Rusby 1672. 
SENECIO HowENACKERI Sch.-Bip.; Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 131. 
(Specimen without number.) The same as Mandon rgs5. 
SEnEcIO PENTLANDIANUs DC. Prodr. 6: 421. (Wo. 7877.) 
SENECIO PRUNIFOLIUS Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 102. (JVo. 2039.) 
SENEcIO Smirui DC. Prodr. 6: 412. (Cineraria gigantea Sm. 
Exot. Bot. 2 (1805), but the name Sezecio giganteus is pre- 
occupied.) (Vo. 7969.) 
Senecio multinervis Sch.-Bip. (Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 12: 80; 
name only. 18 
Stems and branches very stout, many-nerved, the younger por- 
tions short-shaggy, many of the hairs reflexed; leaves (only the up- 
per seen) crowded, clasping by a narrowed, petiole-like base, 1.5-3 
dm. long, 4.5-9 cm. broad, oblanceolate, acuminate or short-atten- 
uate, very finely and sharply dentate with salient ae thickish 
and apparently fleshy, above bright- “green, papillose and very 
shortly and sparsely hairy, the venation inconspicuous, Sade: neath 
small ne than 1 dm. broad) and dense, or large (3 dm. broad) and 
rather lax, the branches rice the bracts lanceolate, attenuate; 
peduncles of the heads 0.5-1 cm. long, stoutish ; heads nearly 1 cm. 
long and a) a half broader as pressed ; ; involucres hemispherical- 
campanulate, mm. long, of few scales in one series; scales 
eae oval-ovate, obtusish, brown with broad whitish margins; 
mm. longer than the scales, eee deep-yellow; akenes 
ae short; tubular corollas infundibul 
‘‘ A shrub 6 to 8 ft. high, with ie flowers, scarce in forest- 
mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2495.) 
Senecio octophyllus Sch.-Bip. (Linnaea 34: 531; name only. 
1866.) 
Densely tomentose; stems decumbent or ascending, stoutish, 
densely leafy; leaves 3-4 cm. long, 0.7-1.5 cm. broad, oblong, 
midrib and inconspicuous veins, thickish; heads few, corymbose 
at the summit, 1.5 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. broad, leafy-bracted ; 
