Ifotonia] lxxi. coMPOSiTiE. 597 



base, terminating in a short compressed pilosulous cone ; achene 

 more or less cylindrical, slender, glabrous, sulcate-striate, truncate 

 at the apex, subtruncate and slightly stipitate at the base ; 

 pappus 2- to 3-seriate, in very closely approximate rows, setose, 

 the setie numerous, setulose-scabrid ; receptacle flat, alveolate, 

 the alveoliB minutely and unequally dentate-fimbriate and each 

 with the erect stipes of the achene in its centre. 



Htjilla. — A very beautiful plant. In rocky elevated parts of Morro 

 de Lopollo, very sparingly fl. and f r. Jan. 1860. In dry thickets about 

 Lopollo ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3572. Flowers large, cinnabar- 

 led. Lopollo, fl. and fr. May 1860. Coll. Carp. 670. 



0. Hoffmann, I.e., quotes 3582 instead of 3572. 



65. SENECIOTournef.,L.; Benth. &Hook. f. Gen.Pl. ii. p. 446. 



1. S. coronopifolius Desf. Fl. Atl. ii. p. 273 (1798); 0. & H. in 

 Oliv. F\. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 412. 



MossAMEDES. — A small annual herb, branched from the base ; 

 branches ascending, reddish ; leaves rather fleshy, somewhat viscid ; 

 flowers yellow. At the sandy banks of the river Giraul, then almost 

 dry, at an elevation of scarcely 10 ft.; fl. July 1859. Only one specimen. 

 No. 3669. 



2. S.picridifoliusDC.Prodr.vi. p. 386(1837); 0.&H.,Z.c.,p.413. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — A glaucescent, ascending herb, 2 to 8| ft. high, with 



the habit of an Emilia or Crassocephalum ; branches elongated, slender, 

 quasi-soandent ; peduncles rosy ; flowers orange-yellow or of a deep 

 lemon-colour. In the damp thickets of Sobato de Bumba at the river 

 Casaballa, rather rare ; fl. and fr. beginning of May 1856. No. 3696. 



Htjilla. — Flowers orange-yellow. In the wooded thickets of Morro 

 de Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 3694. Flowers yellow. In 

 swampy places at the rivulet Catumba ; fl. and fr. March 1860. 

 No. 3695. 



3. S. erubescens Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 1, iii. p. 190 (1789); 

 Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 363 (1865). 



Huilla. — Flowers purplish. In moist pastures from Lopollo in the 

 direction of Catumba, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. Afterwards 

 searched for in vain. No. 3668. 



4. S. versicolor Hiern, sp. n. 



A perennial glandular-puberulous herb ; rootstock more or less 

 prsemorse; stem decumbent, ascending, sometimes rooting with 

 adventitious fibres or branching near the base, 1 to 2 ft. high, 

 leafy below, branched in the upper half and there forming a 

 cymose somewhat leafy corymbose or obovoid inflorescence ; leaves 

 alternate, narrowly oblong sublinear or oblanceolate, obtuse at 

 the apex, somewhat narrowed to a sessile or subsessile auriculate 

 clasping base, more or less coarsely or distantly toothed or sub- 

 pinnatifid, thinly herbaceous, 1^ to 4 in. long by ^ to i in. broad ; 

 capitula campanulate, homogamous, discoid, -^^ to f in. long, 

 usually calyculate with very few small narrow scales similar to 

 the uppermost bracts on the pedicels, on unequal pedicels arranged 

 in a much-branched rather lax terminal cyme 2 to 6 in. in 



