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flowers; rays about 8 or 10; akenes nearly 4 mm. long, ob- 
long, truncate, angular, brown, canescent. 
Vic. La Paz, 10,000 ft., 1889 (70); 1890 (180).—Rusby 1717. 
Senecio clivicolus, Wedd. Chlor. And. i. 130. Vic. La Paz, 10,000 
ft., 1890 (145). — Rusby 1670, etc. 
Senecio floccosus, Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xix. 264, where, 
by a typographical error, it appears as floscosus. Songo, Nov. 
1890 (870).— Rusby 1680 and 1720. 
SENECIO Bancii, sp. п. Shrubby and branching at the base, the 
stems several, slender, erect, 2-3 dm. long, the younger por- 
tions slightly floccose; leaves 2-3 times the length of the inter- 
Бөле? the petioles 15-20 mm. long, margined, the blade 3-5 
. long, 
dentate or lobed, above dark green, sparsely and finely lanate, 
ow more densely lanate; peduncle terminal, about the 
length of an internode, the secondary of about the same length, 
erect, slender, 4-6 in number, bearing solitary heads and sev- 
eral filiform bracts above the middle; involucre broadly cylin- 
drical or slightly campanulate, 1 cm. long and nearly as broad ; 
scales 1-ranked, but slightly imbricated, linear, tapering and 
acute; rays about 15; disk-flowers and akenes very slender, 
the latter (in flower) linear, 4 mm. long, the corollas 6 mm 
long; pappus very fine, minutely serrulate. 
Capi, March, 1890 (778). 
SENECIO 5 sp.n. Shrubby, the stem low, horizontally 
ranc b ackish, rough, the secondary ranches erect; 
sparsely sp spiniferous Че 
fles 
and sparsely downy; leaves alternate, very fl Pres 
sub elavate Бе in curved, sessile, the apex furnished with 
a minu e black mucronation, bearing I or 2 pairs of obscure 
teeth near the apex, 5-8 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, slightly lan- 
ate when young; heads mostly solitary, terminating the short 
branchlets; involucre 6 m igh, 5 mm. broad, the outer 
tips which are continuous with the dark green middle portion, 
thick and somewhate rigid, about 10 in number; rays 7-10, 
8 mm. long, the 3 lobes oblong, fully 1 mm. long; disk-corol- 
las 8 mm. long, a little exceeding the pappus, which is rather 
coarse ; mature akenes oblong, the apex truncate, nearly 2 mm. 
long and one-fourth as broad, light brown, strongly ribbed, 
hispid. 
Talca Chugiaguilla, 1890 (792). 
