1877.] Knowledge of the Burmese Flora. 195 



Hab. Common in agrarian and garden land, in deserted toungyas, 

 in waste and rubbishy places, along river- banks, etc., also in the savannahs, 

 all over Burma, from Chittagong and Ava down to Tenasserim. — Fl. C. 

 and HS. ; Fr. HS. 



2. E. PRENANTHOiDEA, DC. Prod. V. 303 ; Clark. Comp. Ind. 176 

 {E. angustifolia, DC. 1. c). 



Hab» Ava, hills east of Bhamo (J. Anderson). — Fl. Fr. Aug. 



Senecio, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 

 Subg. 1. Eti- Senecio. Anthers not tailed at the base. Achenes all with, or those of 

 the ray, without pappus. 



* Achenes all with pappus. 



Almost glabrous, the flower-stems almost scapiform ; lower leaves elongate-cuneate- 

 oblong ; flower-heads short peduncled, in dense corymbs ; achenes of the disk papil- 

 lose-rough ; pappu-s white, S. obtusatus. 



Almost glabrous or more or less hirsute ; leaves narrow-linear, with involute margins ; 

 flower-heads long-peduncled, few ; achenes papillose-rough ; pappus more or less 

 pubescent, *S'. Griffithii. 



* * Achenes of the ray without pappus. 



Roughish hirsute ; leaves elongate-linear, narrowed at the base ; flower-heads in lax 



corymbs ; achenes striate, glabrous ; pappus rufescent, S. saxatilis. 



Subg. 2. Synotis. Anthers tailed, the tails free or adnate. 



* Erect shrubs or undershrubs. 



Stem and leaves beneath white-tomentose ; flower-heads radiate, rather large, in dense 

 corymbose panicles ; achenes glabrous ; pappus white, 8. densijlorus. 



Glabrous or nearly so ; flower-heads small, glabrous, discoid, in small dense corymbs ; 

 achenes glabrous ; pappus white, .- S. triligulatus. 



* * Scandent shrubs or undershrubs. 



Stems almost zigzag-flexuose, slightly woolly and glabrescent ; flower-heads discoid, 

 rather large, in divaricate corymbose panicles ; achenes difi'orm, those of the disk 5- 

 gonous, with pilose corners and white pappus, the ray-achenes glabrous, almost 

 trigonous S. Chinensis. 



1. S. OBTUSATUS, Wall. Cat. 3133 ; DC. Prod. VI. 367 ; Clark. Comp. 

 Ind. 192. 



Hab. Ava, Khakyen hills east of Bhamo. (J. Anderson). Fl. May. 



2. S. Griffithii, Hf . and Th. MS. ; Clark. Comp. Ind. 193. 



Var. a. genuin'a, leaves longer and glabrous or nearly so -, flower- 

 heads longer peduncled, the involucral bracts nearly glabrous. 



Var. /?. KuRzii, Clark. Comp. Ind. 194. a fruticulose undershrub, 

 the leaves hirsute on both sides or almost chaffy pilose along the midrib 

 beneath; flower-heads shorter peduncled, the involucral-bracts more pubescent* 



Hab. Var. /8. rather frequent on rocks and in open grassy places in 

 the pine-forests of the highest ridges of the Martaban hills, at 6000 — 7100^ 

 ft. elevation.— Fl. Jan., Febr.; Fr. March. 



