(394) 
involucre about as long as the flowers, the scales in two series; 
scales lanceolate, acutish; rays pale-yellow, little exceeding the 
involucre. 
(Specimen without number; the same as Lechler 2092 from 
Peru.) 
Senecio Sepium Sch.-Bip. (Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.12: 80. 1865.) 
Pubescent; stems weak, erect or ascending, nerved or costate, 
sparsely leafy except near the base; lower leaves petiole the pe 
oles slender, 1-2 cm. long, the blades 3 » O.7—1. 
broad, ovate, rounded to subcordate at the hae: ee ed ee 
tusish, thin, dark-green above, paler beneath, the margin finely and 
sharply serrate, the sinuses broad and rounded; upper leaves sim- 
ilar but gradually more slender, with shorter, margined petioles, at 
with a few small scales at the base; scales linear-attenuate, strongly 
3-nerved; rays slender, nearly a half longer than the involucre; 
pappus very fine and copious, white. 
(Specimen without number.) The same as Mandon 733. 
Senecio biacuminatus sp. nov. 
labrous except for the lightly floccose peduncles and branches of 
the inflorescence ; stems woody, stout, coarsely angled above; upper 
leaves sessile by an acuminate base, the lower i aia Sh intoa baie 
petiole 1 or 2 cm. long, lance-oblong, 0.8—1.5 d g, 1.5-3¢ 
broad, acuminate at both ends, very acute, tickish, ey cane 
toward the apex with appressed teeth, the terete, stout midrib and 
about 12 pairs of slender, very crooked secondaries prominent 
underneath; panicle large, pyramidal, the branches stoutish; pe- 
duncles of the heads erect, stout, angled, 1-2 cm. long; i involucré 
campanulate, 1 cm. long, sub-2- serialled, the outer — short and 
ertile, 2.5 ¢ ae bright-yellow, strongly 5-7- a. akene 3 
m ng; pappus 9 fine, white, not copious; corolla 
infundibular, the a rather abruptly eee equaling the 
pappus. (Wo. 78 
This may be ni same as Mandon 1g7. Mr. Bang sends another 
specimen, without number, with larger, sinuately serrate, clasping 
leaves, narrower involucre, the scales narrower and obtusish and the 
rays much smaller, which may be a variety of this. 
Senecio oblanceolatus sp. nov. 
Glabrous excepting the puberulent inflorescence and lower leaf- 
surfaces; stem stout, branched from near the base, the branches 
