PLATE 523. 



Sbnecio macboglossus, D.C. (F1. Cap. Vol. Ill, p. 403.) 

 Natural Order, Composite. 



A glabrous climbing plant bearing light yellow flowers. Stems terete, 

 herbaceous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, exstipulate, hastate, cordate at base, 

 acuminate, basal lobes 2, large and acuminate like the central one, often with two 

 much smaller ones proceeding from their lower margins, otherwise entire, 3-veined, 

 texture fleshy but drying to thin and papery ; 3 inches long and wide ; petiole 1 

 to 1^ inch long, terete. Flowering branches mostly 1-headed, from 1-J to 6 inches 

 long, bearing a few depauperated leaves in lower portion which become linear 

 and much smaller in upper portion, the uppermost about 4 lines long by 1 line 

 wide. Heads radiate, spreading to 2 inches or a little more in diameter; rays 8 

 to 12, narrow-oblong, minutely 3-toothed at apex, multistriate ; disk florets 40 to 

 50, perfect, their styles 2-branched, the branches strongly recurved, truncate and 

 pappilose at apex; ray florets female, their styles similar, but epappilose. 

 Achenes slender, glabrous. 



Habitat: Natal: Drege; Gerrard Sf McKen 330; near Durban 100 feet alt., 

 May, Wood 10592. 



A rather pretty climber found in the coast districts, but not very common ; it 

 is sometimes seen in cultivation, and popularly known as " Natal Ivy." It is in 

 cultivation in Europe where it was introduced in 1875; there it is known as 

 " Cape Ivy," and is said to be well sujted for training to rafters of Greenhouses. 



Fig. 1, inVolucre and calyculus; 2, ray floret, upper portion removed; 3, 

 style of ray floret ; 4, disk floret; 5, three stamens; 6, style of disk floret, all 

 enlarged. 



