(395 ) 
ascending, stout, flexuous, somewhat angled, densely leafy; leaves 
sessile by a cuneate, petiole-like base, 7-10 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm 
stout midrib is prominent, thickish, the venation inconspicuous; 
heads rather fea. solitary in the axils of distant leaf-like aes ; the 
peduncles 2-4 cm. long, slender, linear-bracted; involucre 1 cm. 
long, broadly turbinate-campanulate, 2-serialled, the nee series 
basal, very short; inner scales oblanceolate, acuminate and acute; 
rays not present ; akenes 3 mm. long, sharply costate; pappus 8 mm. 
long, fine, white, copious; corolla 1 cm. long, the greenish tube 
one-half its length and dilated at the base, abruptly expanded into 
the ee infundibular limb. (Vo. 26372.) Species near S. 
Swart. 
Senecio coroicensis sp. nov. 
Glabrous; branches stout, costate; petioles 2 cm. long, stout, 
channeled above, 3-costate ae the midrib, underneath; blades 
0.7-1.5 dm. long, 2.5— broad, oblong, acute at the base, 
short- pointed and. acute re he apex, strongly and sharply serrate 
broadly campanulate, 6 mm. long, the scales ovate, acuminate and 
acute; rays light-yellow, the Himb oblong, 5 mm. long; akenes 3 
mm. long; corolla-tube proper slightly longer than the akene, 
slender, dilated at the base, passing abruptly into the broadly in- 
fundibular limb, which is shorter. (Vo. 243 
‘¢ A shrub ro ft. or more high, in rich age the flowers 
light blue.” Coroico, September, 1894. Mr. Bang must have 
mistaken the plant, as the yellow rays are conspicuous. 
Senecio pectioides sp. nov. 
labrate; root stout, elongated, woody, bearing a dense mass of 
filiform, elongated rootlets; stem woody, much-branched from 
4 cm. long, 4-8 mm. br 
late, acute, coarsely and sinuately gene the teeth acute, the large 
auricles of the upper leaves coarsely laciniate, deep-green above, 
underneath pale and when young more or less pilose; terminal 
corymbs small, loose; peduncles of the heads 0.5-1 cm. long; 
